When a Dem becomes president even the Republicans will be calling for the troops to come home

[NNN0LHI]

Maybe especially the Republicans. The Dems and Rethugs in Congress will put together and vote on a veto-proof bill to cut funding for the war and the Dem president will have no choice but to start withdrawing troops.

That is what I expect to happen.

What do you guys think?

Don

[gateley]

1. You may have a point -- many of the Repugs are probably just as horrified

by what's going on as we are, but feel pressured to vote the Republican line.

God I hope you're expectation comes to pass. And it's up to us to help see that it does.

[gateley]

9. God I hate them. nt

[babylonsister]

2. That's the 'new' plan regardless of who wins and who gets killed in the interim:

GOP Offers New Iraq Plan

By ANNE FLAHERTY – 1 day ago

WASHINGTON (AP) — A small group of Republicans facing election fights next year have rallied around war legislation they think could unite the GOP: Call for an end to U.S. combat in Iraq, but wait until President Bush is almost out of office.

The Democrats on Friday deemed the legislation a nonstarter, and underscored the difficulty Congress has in striking a bipartisan compromise on the war. What attracts Democrats has repelled Republicans and vice versa, making it impossible so far to find a middle ground.

"I don't support it at all," said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev. "It doesn't do anything."

The proposal, by Sen. George Voinovich, R-Ohio, would require that Bush change the mission of U.S. troops from combat to primarily support roles, such as training Iraqi security forces and protecting U.S. infrastructure in Iraq. His legislation would set a goal of completing such a mission transition within 15 months.

If enacted immediately, that timeline would not kick in until Bush's last couple weeks in office.

"That's very courageous," Reid, D-Nev., quipped when a reporter asked him Friday about the proposal.

more...

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hcWJu9bbzrJZ7uNHjvMn0BuTGqHQD8RUMB681

[blondeatlast]

3. Of course they will and demanding the CIC's head on a platter

if he/she doesn't bring them home.

Why, for the love of goodness, are we not doing the same?

[NNN0LHI]

5. Because the Republicans aren't joining with the Dems and calling for the troops to come home yet

They will though soon after the next Dem President is sworn in.

Don

[blondeatlast]

7. There will be a very public, very boisterous call for an immediate withdrawal

on or about 1/19/09.

I suggest we both bookmark this thread...

[Bitwit1234]

4. 100% correct and every day they don't the republicans will rant and rave.

that the democrats haven't brought the troops home. You betcha.

[NNN0LHI]

6. Oh, yea. They will be complaining that they aren't being withdrawn fast enough

Thats for sure.

Don

[Toots]

8. Declare military victory and have a huge ticker tape parade and big parties.

Then Declare the politics still a work in progress. That Democratic President will be a huge Hero..The troops will be huge Heroes and hell even Bush* will get some Glory...It is a win win situation for everyone but the Iraqis and they lost "Big Time". It will take them decades to regain what we destroyed..

[ljm2002]

10. Precisely...

...it's how they work. That is why Bush needs to keep it going until a Democrat takes office: either the Democratic president will keep pursuing the war and be politically damaged as a result; or the Democratic president will withdraw and there will be even more of a disaster than there is now, and that will be even more damaging; or the Republicans in Congress will suddenly see the light, start the withdrawal hue and cry, and it will pass Congress and it will be *their* initiative that got us out of that horrible situation -- as contrasted with the Democratic Congress right now, who did not have the spine to stand up for what they knew was right.

Yes that is the strategy. Tell me I'm wrong -- please!