Bush declares "bloody summer" , then we give him 100 billion for it.

[madfloridian]

In the Rose Garden yesterday, President Bush said Al Qaeda has "plenty of patience." (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)

Bush predicts bloody summer in Iraq

WASHINGTON -- President Bush yesterday predicted "heavy fighting" this summer in what he acknowledged was an unpopular war in Iraq, but said it would be "catastrophic" for the United States to leave before the country is stable.

Before the House approved a measure to continue funding for the war, the president warned that insurgent forces in Iraq would deliberately step up attacks against US troops and Iraqi civilians in advance of September, when administration officials are scheduled to deliver progress reports on the war to Congress .

"It could be a bloody, it could be a very difficult August," the president said in a Rose Garden news conference. "We can expect more American and Iraqi casualties."

Despite growing public discontent with the war, Bush won a key victory on Capitol Hill, where the House voted 280 to 142 for a measure that would continue funding for the war without imposing any schedule for troop withdrawals. Many Democrats voted against it -- including the entire Massachusetts delegation -- but strong GOP support ensured passage of the bill, which would provide $120 billion for the war and some domestic programs unrelated to the conflict.

And none of them are really talking to us about what they did and why. It would not be hard to talk to the majority of the base, it really would not.

A few people here today seem to think those of us who fear the worst about that "bloody summer" are sophists, are being ingenuous in our arguments.

To them I say that we who are concerned are far better than those who are not. We are acting in a more moral way, and we are being honest.

I never remember carte blanche to kill others being given so freely and so easily in this country with so much money allocated for it.

[shance]

1. Rewarding evil. That would make them partners in crime.

Which it does.

Remember when members of Congress cried and wailed about how they had been duped after they wholeheartedly supported Iraq War "Resolution".

They are accomplices in the War and in this crime against humanity and Americans at large.

Watch up for the private/paramilitary groups here in the states.

Watch Congress promote that as well and then lie and tell us we are on to him.

WAKE. UP. AMERICA.

[madfloridian]

2. Bush gets war money through September...4 full months plus one week

He can do a lot of harm in that time. There are no checks and balances on him. He has the power.

Bush gets war money through September

CAPITOL HILL -- A leading congressional critic of the Iraq war said he believes change is coming even though Democrats were unable to tie a troop withdrawal to funding for the war.
"I feel a direction change in the air," Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., said. Murtha is chairman of the House panel that oversees military funding.

The bill passed by the House and Senate Thursday only funds the war through September.

We gave a cowboy who doesn't speak good English power of life and death over the Iraqi people....and perhaps Iran.

[bdamomma]

3. someone should drop his a$$ there, umm..........

any surprise visits coming up for *'ie??? Memorial Day weekend another photo shoot perhaps???

[madfloridian]

4. David Corn says it better than I have been able to say it.

The Dems' Self-Defeat on the Irar War Vote

The answer came on Thursday night when the Democratic leaders of the House and Senate essentially turned tail and allowed votes on a $120 billion war funding measure containing weak benchmarks and little in the way of consequences should the Iraqi government fall short. GOPers provided most of the support for the legislation, but in the House 86 Democrats voted for it (including such leaders as Representatives Steny Hoyer (news, bio, voting record), Rahm Emanuel (news, bio, voting record), James Clyburn (news, bio, voting record) and John Murtha (news, bio, voting record)). In the Senate, 37 of 50 Democrats went along. Toward the end of the vote in the Senate, Obama voted nay; then Hillary Clinton followed suit.

The war continues. No checks, no balances.

Grassroots and antiwar Democrats who expected their party's win last November to lead to the war's end are enraged. As they see it--and accurately so--a Democratic-controlled Congress has failed to halt or slow Bush's war in Iraq, even though public opinion polls show that a majority of Americans favor establishing a withdrawal timetable. And, worse, many Democrats have now voted to give the war, with the ongoing escalation, another chance. The Democratic Party leaders stand alienated from their base--while congressional Republicans, though out of step with popular sentiment, are in sync with their core supporters.

..."The House Democratic leaders can now contend that they did try to force a change on Bush and point to the 140 Dems who voted against the war funding bill. But this claim cannot overcome the appearance of Democratic strategizing gone awry. The Democrats created too much confusing context for their failure. Bush had a simple position: I want my war the way I want it, and if the Democrats don't give it to me, they'll be harming the troops and bear responsibility for whatever ill befalls America from the evildoers. The Democrats presented a series of hard-to-follow and hard-to-explain gyrations. They were rolled.

They forgot to play to their base and to the majority of the country. They forgot to "talk" to us, to "communicate" with us. And those who were most expected to have done so failed us.

Bottom line...if you play such complicated political games that your base can't follow you on it, then you lose.

[madfloridian]

5. Already starting....Sadr City has 2 million people packed in tightly.

And we are stepping up attacks there. With 100 billion behind him, Bush is strutting his stuff.

U.S. Military Raids Sadr City Again

BAGHDAD -- U.S. and Iraqi forces are targeting Shiite insurgent cells with a second day of raids in Baghdad's Sadr City.

Troops have arrested one suspect believed to be involved in smuggling bombs from Iran that have been used against U.S. armored vehicles.

The raids come after anti-American Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr emerged from hiding on Friday, calling for Shiites and Sunnis to band together and force foreign troopsout of Iraq.

And the British are attacking Basra.

And from Dahr Jamail... Baghdad Smashed: Diary of a Diaspora

http://www.pacificfreepress.com/content/view/1261/81/

I see some diaries here chiding those of us who feel a lot of concern that our Democrats gave Bush carte blanche for killing Iraqis for 4 months.

I am sorry they feel that way. I hope I never get to that point.