Pelosi and the White House Trade Jabs

    House Speaker Nancy Pelosi hit the nail on the head Friday when she said that President Bush is hurrying troops into Iraq while betting that Congress won't cut off funds if they are already in battle.  The White House called her claim "poisonous."

   Pelosi, on ABC's "Good Morning America."   

    "The president knows that because the troops are in harm's way, that we won't cut off the resources. That's why he's moving so quickly to put them in harm's way."

Spokeswoman Dana Perino had this to say from the White House.

"Those particular comments were poisonous. I think questioning the president's motivations and suggesting that he, for some political reason, is rushing troops into harm's way, is not appropriate, it is not correct, and it is unfortunate because we do have troops in harm's way."       From Yahoo News

    Surely our fine, upstanding Idiot in Chief wouldn't pull something such as this! Of course not, that's why he went about rushing them over to Iraq before the ink in his speech was even dry.

    Only those with an I.Q. under 10 (sorry FoxNews viewers) would believe that Bush's rush isn't politically based bullshit.

President Bush could care less about who he places in harms way as long as it is not himself.

 

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Bush Has no Authority To Launch War With Iran

From AOL NEWS:      

Associated Press  |   LAURIE KELLMAN  |   January 19, 2007

WASHINGTON (AP) - Democratic leaders in Congress lobbed a warning shot Friday at the White House not to launch an attack against Iran without first seeking approval from lawmakers.
"The president does not have the authority to launch military action in Iran without first seeking congressional authorization," Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid , D-Nev., told the National Press Club.

    Last week, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Joseph Biden, D-Del., challenged the president's ability to make such a move. In a letter to Bush, Biden asked the president to explain whether the administration believes it could attack Iran or Syria "without the authorization of Congress, which does not now exist."

   I do not see President Bush explaining anything to anybody since he thinks that he is the king of the United States. I would bet that if bothered with such a trivial thing as the Constitution, he would just invent a signing statement to get rid of the problem!     Entire Article

 

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