Talk is Cheap
Recently, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi predicted that there would be “a drastic reduction in troops in Iraq by the middle of 2008.” Democrats failed to force Bush to agree to a timetable to withdraw U.S. troops, but Pelosi has the audacity to claim they have backed the president into a corner. Pelosi claims that Bush has yielded to pressure from members of his own party in accepting benchmarks of progress, which encourages the Iraqi government to meet if they expect to keep U.S. support. --- A unitary executive doesn’t yield to anyone.
Accepting benchmarks, which “encourage” is meaningless blather. The benchmarks in the emergency appropriations bill, Bush signed last month was pushed by Sen. John Warner of Virginia. According to Pelosi, Warner is a highly respected Republican expert on defense. She insists: “the president does have to answer to the benchmarks in the bill that passed”. ---Unfortunately, Bush and Warner the so called “expert on defense” will never have to answer for the tragic consequences of what has occurred in Iraq.
Pelosi expects a “drastic reduction in troops” in Iraq by the summer of next year, leaving “only those needed to fight terrorism, to train Iraqis and to protect our diplomats and our troops that are there.”---Big deal it’s just in time for Warner and other Republicans, who are coming up for reelection to have some cover with their constituents.
Congressional Democrats will push to withdraw U.S. troops in future military appropriations and simultaneously “support the troops and end the war.” ---How many more Americans will die, while Democrats try to pull this off. They can only support the troops and end the war, by not funding the war.
Pelosi says that there is going to be legislation that provides funds, which will be used to redeploy the troops out of Iraq and adds that such a measure could take the form of a bill to repeal the authority of the president to go to war in the first place. ---Democrats are six months late with this legislation.
Speaker Pelosi thinks we’re on a path to ending the war and says: “How much longer can this continue?” The answer to this rhetorical question is: ---When members of Congress recognize they have a Constitutional responsibility to restore a balance of power to our government, by asserting their of power of the purse.
Accepting benchmarks, which “encourage” is meaningless blather. The benchmarks in the emergency appropriations bill, Bush signed last month was pushed by Sen. John Warner of Virginia. According to Pelosi, Warner is a highly respected Republican expert on defense. She insists: “the president does have to answer to the benchmarks in the bill that passed”. ---Unfortunately, Bush and Warner the so called “expert on defense” will never have to answer for the tragic consequences of what has occurred in Iraq.
Pelosi expects a “drastic reduction in troops” in Iraq by the summer of next year, leaving “only those needed to fight terrorism, to train Iraqis and to protect our diplomats and our troops that are there.”---Big deal it’s just in time for Warner and other Republicans, who are coming up for reelection to have some cover with their constituents.
Congressional Democrats will push to withdraw U.S. troops in future military appropriations and simultaneously “support the troops and end the war.” ---How many more Americans will die, while Democrats try to pull this off. They can only support the troops and end the war, by not funding the war.
Pelosi says that there is going to be legislation that provides funds, which will be used to redeploy the troops out of Iraq and adds that such a measure could take the form of a bill to repeal the authority of the president to go to war in the first place. ---Democrats are six months late with this legislation.
Speaker Pelosi thinks we’re on a path to ending the war and says: “How much longer can this continue?” The answer to this rhetorical question is: ---When members of Congress recognize they have a Constitutional responsibility to restore a balance of power to our government, by asserting their of power of the purse.
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