Pelosi: "I believe the biggest ethical issue in this country is the war in Iraq"

[sabra]

http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=politics&id=4909769

Nancy Pelosi: "I believe the biggest ethical issue in this country is the war in Iraq. How we went there, how we put our troops out there without the equipment they need, without the operational intelligence to be able to deal with the enemy."

Pelosi says the election of a Democratic majority in the House and Senate will clearly make a difference in Iraq, but just how is still a little fuzzy. Congress controls the hundreds of billions being spent in Iraq, but Pelosi has promised Democrats won't cut the funding and endanger the troops. So what can they do?

Nancy Pelosi: "Well you can set some standards and make sure that something is happening there."

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But there are indications the president will try and force Pelosi's hand by refusing to say how the war funds will be spent.

The incoming chairman of the Defense Appropriations Committee is John Murtha. He will soon be receiving the administration's request for more money, and so far, Pelosi says the White House hasn't supplied any information.

Nancy Pelosi: "Because they know that the standards that we have set may not be met."

[baldguy]

1. THEN END IT!!!!!

[DaveinMD]

2. how?

Congress can do things, but they don't have the ability to immediately end the war.

[AndyTiedye]

7. Impeachment Would End the War

[DaveinMD]

8. no it wouldn't

there is no way we have the votes in the Senate for removal and the proceedings in the house would still take about 6 months. Good try though.

[AndyTiedye]

9. Practically Nobody Wants This "Surge". Not Even the Republicans

I have said over and over that impeachment is, and has to be, a bipartisan process.
If Bush** continues to defy Congress
and escalates this war in the face of such a clear mandate to the contrary
even the Republicans will vote to remove him from office.

[DaveinMD]

10. no they won't

its naive to think they would.

[AndyTiedye]

11. If He Is Not Stopped, He Will Escalate the War in Iraq, Invade Iran, Invade Syria…

Congress will have to put a stop to this madness. I think the time has come when Congress will finally do its Constitutional duty.
Even some of the Republicans are using words like "criminal" in connection with the war.

[LynnTheDem]

3. "enemy"? What "enemy" was that, then?

Just wondering how the Iraqi people became our "enemy".

[aquart]

6. Yeah. That got me, too.

[MichiganVote]

4. The only way out is to tell the world the truth---our gov't lied and we lost b/c of it

[GainesT1958]

5. We have ways of limiting funding...

For the so-called "Surge" without limiting funds to supply or protect our troops currently in Iraq...I'm confident Jack Murtha will find them, and make pretty good use of them. I just hope most of the rest of our Caucus will see fit to back him up...:eyes:

I mean, when even Ollie North says that more troops means more casualties...It's hard to find much enthusiastic support for the scheme of escalation beyond John McCain and our favorite independent, Joementum.:mad:

It's hard to see what Repubs would really stand to gain by backing such stupidity...even if they ARE looking to run for president in 2008!:eyes:

B-)