Of course they are griping. They would have gone apesh*t is Bush had done this. you would have heard them screaming across America. The Commies love it, but if the GOP wins in 2012 they are really going to go ballistic with this sitting there. Then they will start screaming FEMA camps... again.
I am sure that’s true, but Congress made this bill and put in the part about detention without trial and wrote vague language about “substantially supporting” and “associated forces”. And I see no reason at all to believe that if this bill, which needs to be signed every year to provide funding and salaries for our troops, just so everyone is clear on that, was sent veto-proof to Bush’s desk that he would refuse to sign it.