ALERT: Pelosi Won’t Block Iraq Funding to Stop Troop Surge
Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said she won’t block funding for additional troops.
Pelosi: Democrats will never cut off funding for our troops when they are in harm’s way.
It is, I think, very difficult for the president to sustain a war of this magnitude without the support of the American people and without the support of the Congress of the United States. That’s why Congress will vote to oppose the president’s escalation, from the standpoint of policy. We will have our disagreement.
Allah says:
There’s no political downside. If the surge fails, the left can say they showed faith in the troops by funding their mission and giving them a last chance to win. If it succeeds, they get credit for having underwritten victory. Everybody’s happy, just so long as you don’t think too hard about them willingly funding a war which they hate, which they deeply believe is harming America and getting U.S. soldiers killed needlessly, for the sake of their own political expedience.
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January 18, 2007 - 07:44 PM on January 18th, 2007
My respect for Pelosi just went up a very minuscule notch. I still think she’s bad for the country, but if she holds to this promise not to defund the effort she’s a far better man then Teddy Kennedy ever was.
January 18, 2007 - 08:11 PM on January 18th, 2007
News from the front
Baghdad, January 18, 2007—General Praises New Operational Freedom in Baghdad
January 18, 2007 - 11:26 PM on January 18th, 2007
DaydreaM BelieverS OpenTrackback Weekend
Next time your mind wanders during a dull meeting, don’t feel too guilty.
New research shows that when you are bored you simply cannot help daydreaming.
January 19, 2007 - 01:01 AM on January 19th, 2007
al-Sadr and the Mahdi Army Are Going Down!
In an unprecedented move Two Shiite militia commanders stated Thursday that Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has stopped protecting radical anti- American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr’s Mahdi Army under pressure from Washington, while the fighters described …
January 19, 2007 - 06:55 AM on January 19th, 2007
Rosie Has a Double Standard
As anyone knows, Rosie O’Donnell has had this feud with Donald Trump for about a month or so. Now, I don’t really care about either one of them. They are both successful though God knows why and they can both be obnoxious. I can’t …
January 19, 2007 - 07:55 AM on January 19th, 2007
Open Trackback Weekend
I’ve noticed that some of you have been leaving duplicate posts. Which is no big deal for me, but I feel I should clear up a few things. Please note that all trackbacks are manually approved, so it may be
January 19, 2007 - 08:03 AM on January 19th, 2007
Perri,
ANYONE is a better man than Edward “Ted” Moore Kennedy will ever be.
January 19, 2007 - 09:16 AM on January 19th, 2007
Yugo! Yugo!
Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid are sitting pretty tonight… their pal in Venezuela is reaching for the stars, pushing the beloved “revolution” full-speed ahead! (So soon after his lovefest tete-a-tete with the Iranian Hitler… Hmmm?) The Dems can only…
January 19, 2007 - 11:44 AM on January 19th, 2007
Very true. ChapaTraitor is a blathering, bloated buffoon at best. At worst he is an unindicted criminal, a felon, and a traitor.
January 19, 2007 - 03:23 PM on January 19th, 2007
Quality customer service… or not
Snopes has a story on the quality of service at Discount Floor Mats. Seems the customer service person responded in a less than friendly fashion when asked about shipping to a military base. I won’t steal Snopes thunder by excerpting them, but I…
January 19, 2007 - 03:23 PM on January 19th, 2007
Quality customer service… or not
Snopes has a story on the quality of service at Discount Floor Mats. Seems the customer service person responded in a less than friendly fashion when asked about shipping to a military base. I won’t steal Snopes thunder by excerpting them, but I…
January 19, 2007 - 03:23 PM on January 19th, 2007
Quality customer service… or not
Snopes has a story on the quality of service at Discount Floor Mats. Seems the customer service person responded in a less than friendly fashion when asked about shipping to a military base. I won’t steal Snopes thunder by excerpting them, but I…
January 19, 2007 - 03:23 PM on January 19th, 2007
Quality customer service… or not
Snopes has a story on the quality of service at Discount Floor Mats. Seems the customer service person responded in a less than friendly fashion when asked about shipping to a military base. I won’t steal Snopes thunder by excerpting them, but I…
January 19, 2007 - 03:23 PM on January 19th, 2007
Quality customer service… or not
Snopes has a story on the quality of service at Discount Floor Mats. Seems the customer service person responded in a less than friendly fashion when asked about shipping to a military base. I won’t steal Snopes thunder by excerpting them, but I…
January 19, 2007 - 06:39 PM on January 19th, 2007
Maybe, just maybe, President Bush can still pull a rabbit out of his hat in Iraq. He has 1 3/4 years.
I don’t think 20,000 troops will accomplish anything; but a change in the way are forces are used might. It’s too soon to pull the rug out from under President Bush despite his huge miscalculations up to this point.
January 19, 2007 - 06:53 PM on January 19th, 2007
“I don’t think 20,000 troops will accomplish anything; but a change in the way are forces are used might. It’s too soon to pull the rug out from under President Bush despite his huge miscalculations up to this point.”
OI agree, although military expert say that the troop stregnth to civilian level would be corerct in Baghdad, I still endorse the powell Doctrine” go in with overwelming forces, secure the place and leave.
I would like to see triple the troop stregnth minimally, use to secure Bagdad, then heavy borde patrol and last secure Anbar Province.
January 19, 2007 - 07:33 PM on January 19th, 2007
Oh, if only the Powell doctrine had been followed. Secretary Rumsfeld and President Bush’s devotion to Secretary Rumsfeld for far too long have virtually guaranteed failure.:..
It’s far too late for the Powell doctrine.
20,000 troops won’t make a difference, but a smarter strategy might. This isn’t Japan in 1945. We can’t kill our way to victory. We must understand the enemy and deal with them in a rational way that can result in victory.
How many times have I been called a moron for suggesting that we need to understand the enemy??? If President Bush had understood the People of Iraq and the Muslims we might have avoided many of the current problems there.
January 19, 2007 - 09:07 PM on January 19th, 2007
“It’s far too late for the Powell doctrine.”
I disagree.
“20,000 troops won’t make a difference,”
I agree.
“President Bush had understood the People of Iraq and the Muslims we might have avoided many of the current problems there.”
I disagree. The problem was there long before we entered iraq. For some reason, people think that the US entering Iraq under Bush destabilized Iraq. The fract of the matter is that Iraq has been destabilzed for a great many year,. At tyhe very least since desert storm, more realistically since Hussein came to power, and the argument can be made for the last several hundred years.
January 20, 2007 - 05:52 PM on January 20th, 2007
Read this recently:
A panel of retired generals told a United States Senate committee today that sending 21,500 additional troops to Iraq will do little to solve the underlying political problems in the country.
“Too little and too late,”is the way Gen. Joseph P. Hoar, a former chief of the Central Command, described the effort to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The additional troops are intended to help pacify Baghdad and a restive province, but General Hoar said American leaders had failed to understand the political forces at work in the country. “The solution is political, not military,”he said.
“A fool’s errand,”was the judgment of Gen. Barry McGaffrey, who commanded troops in the first Gulf War. He said other countries had concluded that the effort in Iraq was not succeeding, noting that “our allies are leaving us and will be gone by summer.â€