TPMCafe: Senator Ken Salazar Says Troops Want Congress to Cut Off War Funding

[flpoljunkie]

Senator Says Troops Want Congress To Cut Off War Funding

By Greg Sargent - September 17, 2007, 5:27PM

Whoa, this is interesting. Colorado Senator Ken Salazar -- who's taken a bunch of heat for backing toothless Iraq War measures -- is now flirting with the ultimate: Cutting off funding for the war. From the Denver Post:

Washington -- Congress should look at cutting off funding for the Iraq War if Senate efforts to change the role of U.S. troops in the battlefield fail, Sen. Ken Salazar said Monday.

Salazar, a Colorado Democrat, previously has not supported Congress using its ability to stop war payments in order to force President Bush to change direction..."If it could be done then I think we ought to take a look at it," Salazar said.

Even more interesting, guess who has been encouraging Salazar to pursue this option?

While in Iraq over the weekend, Salazar said, some service men and women told him that they wanted Congress to cut off funding.

Some soldiers want war funding cut off? But isn't advocating for that tantamount to being anti-troops, and aren't Congressional Dem leaders certain that such a measure would automatically be perceived that way? That's what we keep hearing, anyway.

http://tpmelectioncentral.com/2007/09/salazar_says_troops_want_congress_to_eye_cutting_off_war_funding.php

[rockymountaindem]

1. Huh

That's quite a turnaround. I'd like to have been a fly on the wall in that staff discussion. Of course, then I'd be a fly which presents a whole other range of problems...

[CountAllVotes]

2. yeah and did you happen to note

that the Pentagon is saying that the security problem is not being solved?

Is it time to "cut and run" and act like its over now anyway?

[flpoljunkie]

3. Yes, it is quite a turnaround. Let's see if Salazar puts actions behind these words.