Bush,Republican's Growing Further Apart

   I am kind of still in the middle of getting settled in after moving last week so I'm only going to give you a bit of the news story from the day and maybe a small thought on the story. I will be back up and running at full kilt next week.

  For our first story, let us look at the dumbass in the White House and his newest veto threat against legislation calling for a troop withdrawal from Iraq. ( source )

   As is so usual with George Bush, he once again isn't going to listen to the American people or the United States Congress when it comes down to doing anything right or moral. At the same time,  it's hard to do either of those things when you know nothing right and you have no lasting morals. This would be the case with Mr. Bush.

   Bush couldn't stop the U.S. involvement in Iraq even if he wanted to because both he and Dick Cheney are to beholden to the big oil company's and the stakes are to high for both men to just turn around and walk out of the Iraqi bullshit that they let the oil people pay them for.

On the situation in Iraq, Christopher Bond, R-Mo. "The strategy we had before was not the right strategy.We should have had a counterinsurgency strategy."

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev. "we've lost more than 600 troops, costing the American taxpayers more than $60 billion. The escalation has done nothing to bring the Iraqi government together. It's done absolutely nothing to lessen the violence in Iraq."

  The Senator was speaking of the cost in life and funds since Bush ordered more troops into Iraq last winter.

Two Democrats, Sens. Carl Levin of Michigan and Jack Reed of Rhode Island, back legislation to require a troop withdrawal to begin within 120 days, to be completed by the end of April 2008.

A vote is expected next week, and Reid said nearly all Democrats support the proposal. Republican Gordon Smith of Oregon is a supporter, as well, and Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, told reporters she may switch her position and vote for it, too.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she would call for a vote on a similar measure by week's end.

The Senate proposal appears to be short of the 60 votes needed to overcome a threatened Republican filibuster. Bush's veto threat applied to any legislation that sets an arbitrary date for withdrawal "without regard to conditions on the ground or the recommendations of commanders."

"Setting a date for withdrawal is equivalent to setting a date for failure," he said in a written statement that employed terms similar to those he used earlier in the year when he vetoed legislation that set a target date for a withdrawal.

In a further sign of eroding GOP support, Sen. Elizabeth Dole, R-N.C., called for troops to come home next year.

"Simply put, our troops have been doing a great job, but the Iraqi government has not," said Dole, the latest Senate Republican facing the voters in 2008 to switch positions on the war. "Our commitment in Iraq is not indefinite, nor should the Iraqi government perceive it to be."         YahooNews

   It's funny how so many Republicans are changing their views on the war in Iraq if they happen to be up for re-election in 2008. If these pigs really wanted to stop this mess, then they, along with many Democrats, would vote this war out of existence by cutting off Bush's war allowance. The game would then be over, would it not?

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