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Democrats are trying hard to make an issue of the cost of the Iraq War. Unlike any war in history, they have said that the White House should have presented an exact accounting prior to the onset of hostilities. Last week, Senate "moderates" got $100 billion set aside from President Bush's proposed tax cut to pay for the war, and it appears that the administration will ask for about that amount in supplemental spending very shortly to deal with war-related expenses. At some level, it is nonsensical to do this kind of analysis. Who can put a dollar value on...

<p>The resolution was shelved until tomorrow's formal House session, after Representative Paul C. Demakis, a Back Bay Democrat, objected to its broad language. The proposed resolution would have the House saying that it ''commends and supports the efforts and leadership of the President,'' against an Iraqi leader who violated United Nations' resolutions and states that the war in Iraq is ''lawful and fully authorized by the Congress.''</p>

<p>Democrats remain so bitterly divided over the U.S. war in Iraq that some of the party's advisers privately fear it could damage its prospects in the 2004 presidential election.</p> <p>President Bush's offensive to disarm and topple Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein is supported by 70 percent of Americans, while the Democrats are embroiled in a messy, partywide fight over what to do in Iraq.</p>

WE SUPPORT OUR TROOPS WHEN THEY SHOOT THEIR OFFICERS! Theme from Democrat national committee? Four days ago the Democrat national committee sent out a bulletin to their minions that the mantra for the following day was (We support our troops not BUSH!!) The next day thousands of Democrat robots at a dozen different anti-defense rallies chants the phrase just as their party organizers ordered them to. Today David Horowitz (An independent journalist, discussed on Fox news*) that he had documented that placards saying (WE SUPPORT OUR TROOPS WHEN THEY SHOOT THEIR OFFICERS) (David has a photo of the same on...

The Democratic National Committee sent out a fundraising appeal last week asking members to rally behind Sen. Tom Daschle and his comments about President Bush. You'll recall that last Monday Daschle ridiculed the Bush administration's failed diplomacy in Iraq and blamed any American war deaths on Bush's failure. The DNC, citing the media and public uproar over Daschle's comments, asked donors for any size donation to show their support for the Democratic Party and its leadership. Apparently there's not much interest. Early estimates indicate that the DNC will raise less than $50,000 from the mass mailing. The Republican National Committee,...

<p>With the war now under way, criticism of the war and of President Bush and other administration leaders risks spilling over from being a question of appropriateness to becoming a question of patriotism. This should not occur in a country that values freedom and fights for it as America does, with freedom of speech tops on the list.</p>

<p>Senate Democratic Leader Tom Daschle's bitter attack on President Bush's handling of the Iraq conflict, just as U.S. forces were heading into war, hit a new low in partisan politics.</p> <p>Playing politics domestically was once off-limits when our country was poised to plunge into battle. By publicly supporting your president, your nation and your military — even when you privately disagreed with their actions — you helped foster a unified front, prevent delays or distractions that could cost lives and contribute to getting the troops back that much sooner.</p>

<p>Democratic presidential hopeful Rep. Richard A. Gephardt yesterday said he disagrees with Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle's assertion that the war with Iraq was the result of President Bush's diplomatic failures.</p> <p>"Tom Daschle is a great friend of mine, and he has every right to state his views as he sees them. I don't agree with him here," Mr. Gephardt said on "Fox News Sunday."</p>

Daschle received poor reviews from all but the toughest anti-war Democrats for saying that President Bush had ''failed so miserably at diplomacy'' to provoke combat with Iraq. Two leading Democratic presidential hopefuls--Sen. Joseph Lieberman and Rep. Richard Gephardt--were quick to disassociate themselves from Daschle

March 21 — Only hours after President Bush sent his calling card into the heart of Baghdad, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein (or his body double) appeared on television as if to taunt Bush that he missed. So began the latest chapter in the Bush family enterprise to track down and kill the man who has been their nemesis for more than a decade.< snip >Daschle is again in the crossfire for criticizing Bush’s failure to resolve the impasse over Iraq with diplomacy. The White House slapped down Daschle and implied he was unpatriotic. “France has a better chance of getting...

What you will find below is not a rant from the Iraq Ministry of Propaganda, or the wailings of a tenured professor at one of our institutions of "higher learning." Rather, it is a statement by a Member of Congress, who represents a moderate district equally divided among Republicans and Democrats. Read it and be enraged. Congressman Maurice D. Hinchey Representing New York's 22th Congressional District March 22, 2003 Dear Friends, We are witnesses to a watershed moment in the history of the American republic. It is too soon to know how this will turn out, but it is very...

"[The Republicans] try to convey that image of the Democrats as weak on defense. I don't think we should take that. There is no party position on the war, much to the dismay of our grassroots constituents." — House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi, earlier this week. Talk about a weak defense. Voters who worry that the Democratic party is not sufficiently serious about national-security concerns are not going to be reassured by the knowledge that the Democratic party takes no position on the war. (ANWR, they care enough about to take a position. Prescription drugs. Miguel Estrada. The war?...

Six months ago, Congress authorized a war against Saddam Hussein. Today the legislators will continue debating a resolution to support that war. Strange, no? Democrats are complaining about the “partisanship” of Republicans who force them to declare themselves. They want to keep their options open – like Tom Daschle, who votes for the war and then denounces it, who says he supports the troop but who opposes the job that those troops are doing. Nor is Daschle the only Democrat playing a double game. Nancy Pelosi, the Democrats’ leader in the House, also claims to “support the troops.” But in...

<p>Eleven House Democrats yesterday voted against a resolution supporting U.S. troops and President Bush's leadership as their commander in chief, saying they couldn't approve a war or a president they disagree with.</p> <p>"I, for one, will not be forced to praise the president's reckless decision when what I want to do is praise the troops," said Rep. Jim McDermott, Washington Democrat, who voted "no."</p>

<p>Remember back in December, when Rep. Charles Rangel of New York proposed reinstating the draft? His stated rationale, as we noted, was egalitarian: "A disproportionate number of the poor and members of minority groups make up the enlisted ranks of the military," he told CNN. Forcing the affluent to serve would establish a principle of "shared sacrifice."</p>

<p>PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) In the war against terrorism, the Bush administration has failed to balance the scales of liberty and security, former U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno told a packed audience Monday night at Brown University.</p> <p>After watching President Bush's address, Reno said, ''We will not solve the world's problems by might.''</p>

<p>The Democratic National Committee is asking party members to defend Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle's criticism of the way President Bush has handled the Iraq crisis even as U.S.-led forces invade the country.</p> <p>In the hours before and after the president's order Wednesday night to begin the war to topple Saddam Hussein's regime, the DNC sent e-mails to its grass-roots activists that said "Democratic leaders are standing up to Bush; Make sure you stand up for them!" "Republicans will stop at nothing to gain a political advantage from this military conflict," said an e-mail yesterday.</p>

Senator forgot his own record when pinning war on Bush To be able to say "I told you so," antiwar protesters and Bush critics need for the war in Iraq to go badly. A lot of civilian deaths would be a windfall for people who wanted to let Hans Blix and his hapless weapons inspectors stay in Saddam Hussein's Iraq forever. Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle blamed the war on Bush and said even one death would be too many. Daschle said Bush had "failed so miserably at diplomacy that we're forced to war." He said he was saddened "that...

FrontPageMagazine.com | March 21, 2003 PONTEFICATIONS WITH WAR ONLY HOURS AWAY, THREE DEMOCRATIC “Progressive Caucus” members of Congress on Wednesday via television hookup addressed the European Union Parliament and shared Left-eyed views with their fellow socialists across the Atlantic. Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D.-Ohio) preached that President George W. Bush’s “case for war is a sham” based on “untrue, unfounded and disproven allegations.” This presidential aspirant, whose loony Leftist eccentricities this column recently documented, wants America disarmed and our Department of Defense renamed “the Department of Peace.” “We [who advocate no war against Saddam Hussein] are severely punished inside the borders...

<p>March 21, 2003 -- The winds of war blowing across Iraq yesterday helped clear away some thick political fog here in America - revealing things about the Democratic Party that sure weren't pretty.</p> <p>Indeed, while the Iraq war has highlighted the courage and fortitude of this nation's leaders and soldiers, Democrats (particularly those eyeing the presidency in '04) have been making even the French seem forthcoming.</p>