Bush's Troop Buildup To Get Bigger And Cost More

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WASHINGTON - President Bush's troop buildup in Baghdad apparently will be bigger and more costly — and perhaps last longer — than it seemed when he unveiled the plan in January as the centerpiece of a new Iraq strategy.

   The only people who will be surprised about this  will be, no one. Maybe a few who watch Fox News but then that network will spin the story for its viewers to make it sound like this will be a good thing.

Maj. Gen. Joseph Fil Jr., commander of the 1st Cavalry, said Feb. 16 he has requested additional attack helicopters, and Gates said Wednesday that other unspecified requests for extra troops were being studied at the Pentagon.

Gordon England, the deputy defense secretary, told Congress this week that the total number of support troops could approach 7,000.

  By the time these additional troops are in Iraq, the need for more will have doubled and then some. Let's Face it. The troops of the United States military are not going to leave Iraq anytime soon, period.  The Bush Crime Family does not want them back home and the Democrats that we put into office are spineless! The way that they are going will never get any results on Iraq and I am beginning to doubt that the Dems want our troops home themselves.

   We all know that cutting the funding is the only way that this is going to happen and we are unfortunately stuck with some Democrats who do not want to do that. In my book, that makes them not much of a Democrat and certainly not in support of our troops!

 

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Bush Tells Congress They ""have a responsibility to fund our warfighters."

   Someone should have told Bush that the Congress has more of the right to fund our warfighters for their return trip home. Maybe the idiot would understand " Escalation Homeward " a little better.  

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Bush to Boehner: You “have a responsibility to fund our warfighters”

By: Nicole Belle @ 12:03 PM

  Yesterday President Bush told Congress that they "have a responsibility to fund our warfighters." 

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But what about this? AP :  

The House minority leader threatened Thursday to get his members to vote against a $96.3 billion spending bill for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan if Democrats persist in plans to attach conditions to the money that would tell President Bush how to conduct the wars.

So after President Bush essentially won reelection by claiming that John Kerry voted against funding the troops, and after an Iraq debate where Republicans said 1,000 times that "you can't support the troops without funding the troops," Boehner now says he and the Republicans in Congress will do exactly the same thing they've denounced Democrats as traitors for even suggesting.  Once again, for Republicans, they support the troops just so long as the troops are their useful little pawns and props for their cynical political arguments. 

Sorry Boehner, no more blank checks.

 

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