“We’ll fund you, if you agree to surrender?”
But don’t ever say the Dhimmicrats don’t support the troops. They think nothing of defunding a war our troops are overwhelmingly winning. The Dhimmicrats then blame President Bush who they consider stoopid but they all listened to him. Shame on these pathetic excuses for human beings. To abandon our troops in the name of politics is sick and demented.
I like this political commentary which gives the hows, whens and wheres on the run up to the Iraq war and it’s an interesting bit of history with the Dhimmicrats and Bill Clinton.
How soon we forget, when we practice the art of selective memory and exploit the war and our troops in battle for political gain.On October 11, 2002, one year and one month to the day after September 11, 2001, the U.S. Senate voted on whether or not to authorize use of military force to affect the official U.S. policy regarding Iraq. That policy was established by the Clinton administration in 1998, after being rejected along with UN inspectors and 16 broken resolutions, by the Hussein regime.
In 2002, 77 Senators voted to authorize use of force to depose the Hussein regime in Iraq and liberate the Iraqi people. They did so believing that the Hussein regime was continuing to develop and pursue bio, chemical and nuclear war technologies that could be shared with a vast international network of terror organizations, making the next attack on U.S. soil potentially much worse than that of 9/11.
snip…..In 2007, campaigning for 2008, they claim expertise, but no responsibility
Many Democrats have changed their minds since 2002. They claim their 2002 vote was an error and blame that vote on Bush, claiming to have been misled into those votes by faulty intelligence, specifically Bush intelligence reports.
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If it’s true, that they were misled by faulty pre-war intelligence on Iraq, then they were misled by the same intelligence reports Bush used to make the same decision. Bush was misled as well, by intelligence gathered, assembled and assessed by agencies still under the direction of Clinton appointed heads. Or, was anyone “misled?”
Yep, this last line is definitely the Surrendercrats.
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Given that US contractors in Iraq have defrauded the American taxpayers of billions, given that about one third of the $30 Billion spent for Iraq reconstruction is completely unaccounted for, and many of the paid for projects, like the $72 million Baghdad Police College are disfunctional and worthless. At least $9 Billion of our money is missing. Gone. And that is an estimate from 2005. It’s likely far higher. Reports say as much as $12 billion is unaccounted for. Think about that folks, that’s 12,000 million dollars.
363 TONS of US cash were shrink wrapped and forklifted on to planes and sent to Iraq with no proper control over who was receiving it and how it was being spent.
What Toni isn’t telling you is the whole truth. The fact is that Democrats were ready to give Bush $50 billion for Iraq and the Republicans killed it because they don’t want to provide any oversight whatsoever.
This is what happened - the House passed its version of the Iraq funding, providing Bush $50 billion for the war but with oversight strings attached. The bill then moved over to the Senate side and before it could come up for a vote, GOP Senate leader Mitch McConnell tried to bring up his version of the Iraq funding bill, which contained $70 billion for the war, with no oversight requirements. McConnell didn’t even consult with Democratic leader Harry Reid about this, which is considered protocol. Democrats objected to McConnell’s bill. Reid responded by trying to bring up his Iraq bill for a vote, basically the same bill that passed the House. Republicans objected to Reid’s bill. The objections meant that each bill would need 60 votes (out of 100 total senators) in order to even be brought up for debate. Both votes failed to get 60 votes.
So Doc, what do you suppose we’re going to ‘win’ in Iraq? Oil? Do you know that the entirety of Iraq oil exports for 100 years wouldn’t repay the US cost of this war? Do you know that Iraq is actually importing gasoline? The price of gas in Iraq has increased from 5 cents per gallon in 2005 to $1.23 in June ‘07? The infrastructure is a disaster 5 years after we invaded. Remember Wolfowitz saying the Iraq oil would pay for the war? Remember Rumsfeld saying the war would “last weeks, not months”? Remember Cheney’s ‘last throes’ comment? And 4 1/2 years ago and hundreds of thousands of lives ago, “Major combat operations have ended.”
With this history, you don’t think we have the right to demand accountability and oversight? Or just bow to the king, like good authoritarians?
Comment by William — November 20, 2007 @ 7:43 am
What William isn’t telling you is that he is just a tool for Dhimmicrats. To William ALL contractors are just evil mercenaries. What William also doesn’t say is that defense funding bill also included a date for surrender, along with billions of dollars for non-defense related earmarks.
Comment by Toni — November 20, 2007 @ 8:20 am
And who you going to believe?
If you had one lingering thought that George W. Bush has been honest with the American people, GAME OVER. One of his closest advisers, Scott McClellan confirms today that Bush lied and deliberately hid the identity of an administration official who leaked the identity of CIA operative, Valerie Plame, causing significant damage to US efforts to keep Iran from getting a nuclear weapon.
Essentially, one of Bush’s top aids has confirmed that President G.W. Bush has committed treason in an effort to discredit a war critic. It is a criminal offense to protect someone who leaks intelligence information damaging to the security of the USA, thus aiding an enemy in a time of war. Not to mention, use his Press Secretary to deceive the American people and with hold information pertinent to a felony trial - the case of the Vice-President’s Chief of Staff, Scooter Libby.
Former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan writes in his new book, What Happened:
“The most powerful leader in the world had called upon me to speak on his behalf and help restore credibility he lost amid the failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. So I stood at the White house briefing room podium in front of the glare of the klieg lights for the better part of two weeks and publicly exonerated two of the senior-most aides in the White House: Karl Rove and Scooter Libby. There was one problem. It was not true. I had unknowingly passed along false information. And five of the highest ranking officials in the administration were involved in my doing so: Rove, Libby, the vice President, the President’s chief of staff, and the president himself.”
Comment by William — November 21, 2007 @ 12:28 am
What does this have to do with you Surrendercrats defunding our troops? You got this all from a book that is yet to be released? What, did you get an advance copy? Comments are closed on this thread to you William, this is about defunding our troops by the Democrats.
Comment by Toni — November 21, 2007 @ 6:30 am