Democrats and Republicans Argue over Iraq Escalation

    A day after George Bush's speech was knocked to the ground by criticism from both Democrats and Republicans,Sen. John McCain ( bio, voting record), R-AZ., said that he supports Bush's plan. WOW! I am so surprised by that!

    From the Associated Press:

By ANNE FLAHERTY   January 13,2007

McCain said those advocating the start of a troop withdrawal, which includes many Democrats, "have a responsibility to tell us what they believe are the consequences of withdrawal in Iraq. If we walk away from Iraq, we'll be back, possibly in the context of a wider war in the world's most volatile region."

Rep. John Murtha (news, bio, voting record), a Pennsylvania Democrat who oversees military funding, said he will propose tying congressional approval of war funds to shutting the Guantanamo Bay military prison in Cuba. Other conditions he said he is considering include not extending troop deployments and giving soldiers and Marines more time to train between deployments.    Entire Article from AP

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    Bush did an interview on CBS  "60 Minutes" which will air on Sunday in which," Asked if he believes he has the authority to send additional troops to Iraq no matter what Congress wants to do, Bush said: "I think I've got — in this situation, I do, yeah. And I fully understand they will ... they could try to stop me from doing it, but, uh, I've made my decision and we're going forward."

    My fellow Americans, it would seem as if our going to the polls in November and doing a 'changing of the guard' has not had any affect on our 'enlightened' leader. Not only is this incompetent fool ignoring the members of the House and the Senate, but more importantly, he is disregarding you and I, the voters!

    The American citizens of this country pay this bag of shit $400,000 a year to represent and to work for us. The president is supposed to look out for the publics best interest, not Halliburton's, or Exxon's!

    For Bush to willfully ignore and to disregard our views and stated position on the war in Iraq and stem cell research should be grounds for impeachment in its own right.               Michael d

 

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President Bush Is not The Decider

Molly Ivins, AlterNet., has an article up that might just get your dander up what with President Bush ignoring the American public and sending troops to Iraq anyway.

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We are the people who run this country. We are the deciders and we need to raise hell.

A surge is not acceptable to the people in this country -- we have voted overwhelmingly against this war in polls (about 80 percent of the public is against escalation, and a recent Military Times poll shows only 38 percent of active military want more troops sent) and at the polls. We know this is wrong. The people understand, the people have the right to make this decision, and the people have the obligation to make sure our will is implemented.    Entire Article

 

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