Secretary Gates Says Military Needs Supplemental Funds By April, U.S.-Led Forces Nab Shiite Death Squad Bosses, and The Democrats Are Getting Incompetent

  AP 

BAGHDAD, Iraq - U.S.-led strike forces seized suspected Shiite death squad bosses Tuesday in raids that tested the fragile bonds between the government and a powerful militia faction allowing the Baghdad security crackdown to move ahead.

    The sweeps through the Sadr City slum were part of highly sensitive forays into areas loyal to radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, who has ridiculed the 2-week-old campaign for failing to halt bombings by suspected Sunni insurgents against Shiite civilians.

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McClatchy 

By Margaret Talev

WASHINGTON - Back from a weeklong recess, top Democrats in the House of Representatives and the Senate acknowledged Tuesday that they still don't have a game plan for how to force President Bush to change policy in Iraq.

"There has not yet been a determination made by the Democratic caucus as to how we will finalize our legislative approach to this," said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev. He said it would be another week or two before Senate debate on Iraq resumed.

House Democrats are no closer to decisive action, though they did pass a nonbinding resolution earlier this month opposing Bush's troop buildup in Iraq.

"We are in the process of choosing the least dangerous, the least negative alternative," said House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md. "We're not there; there's not a consensus."

    Me thinks that the Democrats that we elected to put an end to this war have gotten spineless and stupid, I'm sad to say. Cut off the damned funding!!

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    The UPI reports that Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Tuesday has testified that the military needs those supplemental funds by April to pay for the war in Iraq.

   Gates also said that the military has already begun spending the money.

    Our military is sounding like the Bush White House more and more each day, spending money that they do not even have yet.  This is but another ploy by the Bush Crime Family to make the Democrats look bad if the cash isn't allocated by April.

   I would look at this in a positive note. The U.S. troops would be coming home if they can't be supported for their stay in Iraq.

    I cannot wait to hear the Republican spin on this one! It should be good.

 

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