Bush: Dems should OK $196 billion war bill 'without strings' (and before Christmas)

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Bush: Dems should OK war bill 'without strings'
President wants $196 billion for Iraq approved before Christmas

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22032367/



updated 5:49 p.m. PT, Thurs., Nov. 29, 2007

WASHINGTON - President Bush sternly pressed Democrats to approve money to fund the Iraq war “without strings and without delay” before leaving town for the Christmas holidays, something congressional leaders have already indicated they will not do. After more failed attempts to pass legislation ordering troops home from Iraq, Democrats have said they plan to sit on Bush’s $196 billion request for war spending until next year. Bush said this will push the Pentagon toward an accounting nightmare and affect the military’s ability to do its job protecting the country.

“The American people expect us to work together to support our troops. That’s what they want,” Bush said Thursday after spending two hours meeting at the Pentagon with military leaders. “They do not want the government to create needless uncertainty for those defending our country and uncertainty for their families. They do not want disputes in Washington to undermine our troops in Iraq just as they’re seeing clear signs of success.”

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., responded that Democrats will get troops the money they need as part of a “war strategy worthy of their sacrifices.”

“Bush Republicans have indefinitely committed our military to a civil war that has taken a tremendous toll on our troops and our ability to respond to other very real threats around the world,” Reid said.

[Mythsaje]

1. Democrats: "The President should stop being a dick...

but we're not holding our breath for THAT to happen."

[snowbear]

2. Damn, he gets more homely every day!

Seriously.. we're talking BUTT UGLY.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

3. He's got those watery drunk eyes, too...

...what a MESS. Dear God, a year to go...

[grasswire]

4. there he goes again...

...imposing an artificial deadline. Let's see. The plot goes like this. On the last day, there will be some kind of a scare that will be whispered to members of Congress so they will fall in line. Yep. That's it.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

5. Or a new Osama tape.

Osama really needs to start holding up a copy of the current New York Times in those tapes.

It will either be a "new" Osama fatwa mix tape or authorities will "foil" some new terra plot.

[pa28]

6. What's the criteria for victory?

Has he defined it yet, after all these years?

I think this child needs some discipline.

[Kucinich4America]

7. K4A: Dems should tell Chimpy to FUCK OFF AND DIE and bring the troops home (and before Christmas)

Now isn't that a much better headline? :)

[Demeter]

8. Let Me Be the First to Say: HO, HO, HO

and a lump of coal for such a bad boy....

[cboy4]

9. I'm convinced he believes the money is printed at

Kinkos.

[Kucinich4America]

12. It might as well be, considering how fast the dollar is falling

Thanks, Chimp :grr:

[AndyTiedye]

10. There Should Not be Strings…

…there should be CHAINS and LOCKS. Lots of them!

Lock down that money, so it cannot be spent on prolonging the war!
Even with signing statements.

[rAVES]

11. God.. He's like a teenager with a credit card....