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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The Three Amigo's ( U.S.,Iran, Syria ) To Have A Sitdown About Iraq

CNN says that the United States, Iran, and Syria may have a face to face conference next month to chat about the mess in Iraq. I'd love to be a fly on the wall at that get together!

   Little Miss Condi told reporters that the United States supports the get together which is supposed to take place during the first part of March.

   Is that before the Bush Crime Family bombs Iran or afterwards? This will be an interesting meeting with the reps. from the U.S. talking all kinds of trash and Iran and Syria telling the U.S. what it can do with itself.

CNN  

It could set the stage for a ministerial-level meeting in April that will include the Group of Eight -- the U.S., Japan, Germany, France, Britain, Italy, Canada and Russia -- and Iraq's neighbors -- Syria, Iran, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Turkey.

Multilateral organizations and China -- the only permanent member of the U.N. Security Council which is not in the G-8 -- will also be invited, Rice said.

 

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