Senator Russ Feingold (D-WI) says he is prepared to up the ante in the fight with the White House concerning the Iraq War if Bush vetoes their next supplemental spending fill by cutting off funding for the war on a date certain.
Feingold adds that his proposed legislation has a number of co-sponsors already on board in the Senate. His statement:
“With brave Americans fighting and dying for a failed policy in Iraq, members of Congress shouldn’t delay action to end this misguided war for weeks or even months just for the sake of political comfort. That is why, when the Senate takes up the Iraq supplemental, I plan to offer the Feingold-Reid bill as an amendment to force the President to safely redeploy our troops by March 31, 2008 at which point funding for the war would be cut off.”
In addition to Reid's commitment to support the bill, the co-sponsors already on board as listed at Feingold's website include Senators Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chris Dodd (D-CT), Tom Harkin (D-IA), Ted Kennedy (D-MA), John Kerry (D-MA), Pat Leahy (D-VT), Bernie Sanders (I-VT), and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI).
The legislation includes a few caveats sure to be ignored by the wingnuts when they begin to attack the it, so we'll point it out here. Namely, that funding will not be cut off for the purpose of:
"conduct[ing] targeted operations...against members of al Qaeda and other international terrorist organizations";
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"security for United States infrastructure and personnel"; or
"to train and equip Iraqi security services"
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"security for United States infrastructure and personnel"; or
"to train and equip Iraqi security services"
2 comments:
Gates just signed a bill calling for 35000 more troops in December. All this while asking congress to give it a chance and they will know more in September.
The Queen did a photo-op with Dubya about the ties that bind US and Great Briton and talked a lot about the Anglo-American alliance, as they tried to bolster their governments in the eyes of the people.
imho these ideologues have every intention of following through on their ambitions in Iran. The only Democrat that sees it clearly is Dennis Kucinich, and I doubt that congress will follow his lead.
Feingold is right...cut the funding. Give them only what they need and payday is on monday...kinda like you do to alcholics. They have all been hitting the kool-aide too hard and try to call it hard work.
Congress cannot cave in to the Gerbil's demands for his purse. It's time to cut the milk machine off.
"kinda like you do to alcholics. They have all been hitting the kool-aide too hard and try to call it hard work."
Nice analogy! LOL! The Gerbil is at his weakness is when he doesn't get what he wants. He's like a baby that can't go without his baby bottle. But, that money is more important to him for his own personal agenda and legacy.
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