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New Bill Would Fund Iraq War In Two Stages

by: Mike Caulfield

Mon May 07, 2007 at 21:03:45 PM EDT
Pelosi, Murtha, Obey are working on it:

  • Congressional Democrats working on new $95.5 billion war funding bill
  • Half of funds would be available immediately; vote required on remaining funds
  • Bill does not contain deadlines for withdrawing troops from Iraq

Interested in what people think. If we can get Republicans to jump ship, that might be the gateway drug to stronger action in the summer. Less satisfying emotionally perhaps, but a more effective long-term approach?
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New Bill Would Fund Iraq War In Two Stages | 4 comments
The thing I like about this (0.00 / 0)
Is that when the benchmarks come due, some Repubs can jump ship on the "accountability" question -- which may get us the votes to pull out entirely...


Devil's in the details (0.00 / 0)
What are the parliamentary rules for the vote needed to release the second half? If it's "no amendments, no extended debate" I'm agin it.
I'm for any war-ending bill (4.00 / 2)
Timeline or no timeline.

But the problem is Bush. He's not going to let those Republicans pull away. If need be he'll call every last representative and say, "This is the Commander in Chief. Are you with me?"

Unless he fails. But I think he's still capable of rallying his party.

On the upside, this validates the Democratic strategy. They can say, "We tried approach A, we tried approach B, and the big fool wants to push on." (Yes, I should have thought of that during the Seeger thread. Mea culpa.)
 

There is no war. (0.00 / 0)
There is an occupation of foreign territory and there's fomentation of mayhem to prompt the occupied population to "cry uncle" and agree to their continued occupation.
Not going to happen.
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