Memo To Bush: 57 Days < 119 Days
Memo To Bush: 57 Days < 119 Days
The US News Political Bulletin reported this morning that “White House strategists are now pulling out all the stops to blame the Democratic majority in Congress for a potential delay in funding the Iraq war. … White House aides have adopted a new gambit — referring to the number of days since Bush requested funding for the troops in an effort to keep up the pressure.”
This morning at his Rose Garden press conference, President Bush highlighted this new gambit, saying it has been 57 days since he sent Congress his funding request. If Congress fails to act soon, Bush said, “the price of that failure will be paid by our troops and their loved ones.” Watch it:
During the reign of the Do-Nothing 109th Congress, Bush submitted two major supplemental spending requests. Each request experienced a delay far more than 57 days with hardly a peep of anger from the Commander-In-Chief. Details below:
February 14, 2005: Bush submits $82 billion supplemental bill
May 11, 2005: Bush signs the supplemental
Total time elapsed: 86 daysFebruary 16, 2006: Bush submits $72 billion supplemental bill
June 15, 2006: Bush signs the supplemental
Total time elapsed: 119 days
After the 119 day delay, Bush did not say an “irresponsible” Congress had “undercut the troops” or that military families had “paid the price of failure.” Instead, Bush told the conservative-led Congress, “I applaud those Members of Congress who came together in a fiscally responsible way to provide much-needed funds for the War on Terror.”
Transcript:
It has now been 57 days since I requested that Congress pass emergency funds for our troops. Instead of passing clean bills that fund our troops on the front lines, the House and Senate have spent this time debating bills that undercut the troops.
[…]
In a time of war it’s irresponsible for the Democratic leadership in Congress to delay for months on end while our troops in combat are waiting for the funds. The bottom line is this, Congress’s failure to fund our troops on the front line also mean that some of our military families could wait longer for their loved ones to return from the front lines.
[…]
They’re now failing in that responsibility and if they do not change course in the coming weeks, the price of that failure will be paid by our troops and their loved ones.
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April 3rd, 2007 at 11:24 amExcellent Catch TP!
April 3rd, 2007 at 11:24 amYou’ve heard of fuzzy math?
April 3rd, 2007 at 11:25 amMeet its twin, bushy math
Do Americans have the president they deserve?
You answer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJuNgBkloFE
April 3rd, 2007 at 11:25 amSTFU bushy you’re makign it far too easy now.
April 3rd, 2007 at 11:26 amRepublicans count on the notorious amnesia of Americans.
April 3rd, 2007 at 11:28 amCongress wants to cut off funding but doesn’t want to be blamed for cutting off funding? Huh?
April 3rd, 2007 at 11:29 amDidn’t some of the warhawks tout the fact that the surge can continue on for several months on the previous funding alloted? Were they lying or is Bush lying?
April 3rd, 2007 at 11:29 amBush is effectively hiding behind our troops on the front lines in Iraq, for the sole purpose of trying to save his own ass. It ain’t the first time.
April 3rd, 2007 at 11:29 amPartisan politics above all else. What a moron.
April 3rd, 2007 at 11:32 amWait. Did I see a Busch Lite Beer in the background. Top of the Mornin’ To Ya!
April 3rd, 2007 at 11:32 amPromises and deals were made by Bush with the Saudi King and he has no choice. Look Rove told him Republicans would win Congress so the rubber stamp would continue. Now that the Democrats are checking on the money to make sure it goes to our troops and not to Bush friends he’s upset. Notice how well Bush takes care of our injured troops. What happen to their money? Bush is using our soldiers as a way to steal more money but he’s more up set about Speaker Pelosi kicking butt. She was given a Presidential welcome in Syria and will find out the secrets Bush made. Plus Connie is just a waste of time as no one is listening to her. She is known as a liar so nothing will be settle with her in charge. Now Nance is doing Connie Rice’s job and doing it well. Bush has now seen his foreign policy fall and the Democrats bring stability back to the Middle East. Watch big business turn to the Democrats now that Republican Bush is a lam duck. Cheney is getting what he can and moving on.
April 3rd, 2007 at 11:32 amThe White House wants to have a war of choice but doesn’t want to be blamed for having a war of choice? Huh?
April 3rd, 2007 at 11:33 amI want to say, how much would he have to improve to just be an IDIOT? Since thats cheap I will say I and many other Americans are dissapointed in this president and his supporters for being so fixated on things that don’t help America or the rest of the world.
April 3rd, 2007 at 11:34 amThe crazy left needs to realize if they want to surrender to Islamo Facism there will be consequences to that surrender.
April 3rd, 2007 at 11:34 amYeah, but the WH wasn’t trying to score cheap political points against a Democratic led Congress in 2005.
You’re upsetting the apple-cart meme TP. Remember, everything the Dems. do is for partisan anti-American ends and the Repubs. are inherently non-partisan and true blue American, through and through. This notion leaks out of and is repeated in the electronic and print media day after day, after day, after day. Good luck.
April 3rd, 2007 at 11:34 amBush is effectively hiding behind our troops on the front lines in Iraq, for the sole purpose of trying to save his own ass. It ain’t the first time.
Comment by clb72 — April 3, 2007 @ 11:29 am
Actually, he’s now hiding behind the troops AND their loved ones. Yep. He’s very concerned about their loved ones.
April 3rd, 2007 at 11:35 ampretty funny stuff here. it is like he is trying to make sure his cronies get their payoffs. I wonder how much of the money goes right into the pockets of his supporters? that would be the story.
April 3rd, 2007 at 11:36 amWhy is it CRAZY LEFT but never CRAZT RIGHT with you people???
April 3rd, 2007 at 11:36 amGeorge, our troops and their loved ones have been paying for your failures for four years now.
April 3rd, 2007 at 11:36 amThe math doesn’t work. We can’t have all this pork filled bills (no offense, Muslim friends) with peanuts and what not. We need funding with no pull out. If we pull out, we’re all F’d.
April 3rd, 2007 at 11:36 amAlternatively, there are 657 days (too long) left in his administration.
April 3rd, 2007 at 11:36 amHow can he possibly threaten the troops and their families and survive politically? Texas Air National Guard Veterans for Truth, saddle up! Lock and load!
April 3rd, 2007 at 11:36 amWhy, exactly, is this still “supplemental” funding? Surely, the fact that we have troops in Iraq is no longer a surprise. I thought the Pentagon had included war spending in its regular budget. If the administration is going to undertake discretionary wars, shouldn’t they be a part of the budget?
April 3rd, 2007 at 11:36 amHey guys,
I know you think I am dumb, but as people in this world are not dying fast enough to combat population explosion, I am forced to abuse my strengthening authoritarian powers to control these expanding baby makers. It seems that my gamma ray creating tsunami and killing spree in Iraq just ain’t doing the job. My new strategy was thought up after reading Jonathan Swift’s Modest Proposal. Obviously the naïve Swift cannot understand the speed at which we must combat this terror; I will try and talk with him in the coming weeks about this. Folks, time is of the essence to off another few million people, since the scandals of my administration are starting to cause people to question (as if they have the right) my decisions (I AM THE DECIDER DAMMIT). By executive order, I am hereby escalating my PNAC and AEI funded apocalyptic plan (CFR is so jealous). Although there will always be a few hiccups like the date, time, and place of my initiating “Operation: Kill All The Unnecessary People.” Another hiccup is that my current Black-Ops operative and ex-FBI henchman who was supposed to plant numerous false flag explosions throughout Iran being missing for a few weeks. Can’t someone Black Bury him, or use the Google and the internets? Hey Iranians, could you please help us find him?
Well anyway, my 5 step plan to kick off this expedited plan is called “Operation: Look How Stupid The American People Are.” Over here at disinformation central, we just love naming plans, preplans, post-plans, hit-strategies, etc.
I will give you the 5 main components of the plan:
1) Leak a completely fabricated story (we pulled this one right out of Cheney’s ass) to my illuminati buds at Disney to circulate via their MK-Ultra sponsored subsidiary ABC.
2) Schedule a fake press conference three days before dropping bombs on Tehran. Note to self: Remember to make sure to call on the CIA plants in the press, remember not to allow any unscripted questions or my brain might explode with all the bull shit in it.
3) Make sure the reporter that has the “key question.” You know the one about easily refuted Iran nukes! Make sure that she has completed her state sanctioned mind control treatments, knows that we can ruin her in a second, and is so tied to me that she cannot think of diverting the plan.
4) Answer the question in a way that can easily justify bombing dozens of cities and millions of people for no reason. Now that we have sanctioned pre-emptive wars, this should be a no brainer. Those morons at the Congress are busy dealing with my Iran escalation (they are so dumb they think it is to secure Baghdad — jokes on you Pelosi!)
5) Tell Blair to mention some BS about crucial 48 hours to Iran. Hey Blairo-you better stick to the script like a good monkey!!!
Well there you have it folks. I just hope that this educational lesson will allow me to do my job as Milky Way Deity and “Decider of Who Shall Live and Who Shall Die.” Please stop bugging me so that I can get on with our Final Solution. I want to get back to playing “The World’s Most Dangerous Game” with shotgun wielding Dick. I mean really, can’t you see I am doing the people’s business?
April 3rd, 2007 at 11:37 amThe crazy neocons need to realize if they want to surrender to corporatism there will be consequences to that surrender.
April 3rd, 2007 at 11:37 amOh Patrick1, you are so mercifully free of the ravages of intelligence………
April 3rd, 2007 at 11:37 amCrazy patrickarmyof1 has to realize that if he wants surrender to his demons of fear, there will be consequences to that surrender.
April 3rd, 2007 at 11:38 amThe crazy right needs to realize if they want to needlessly sacrifice even more American lives to GOP fascism and King George’s utter inability to admit that he’s wrong, there will be consequences to that waste of American lives.
April 3rd, 2007 at 11:38 am“The crazy left needs to realize if they want to surrender to Islamo Facism there will be consequences to that surrender”
response:
April 3rd, 2007 at 11:39 amThis country has already surrendered (with the constant dumb and dumbing down of society) to the likes of this Fascist Regime (BushCO.) — Nobody reads. Nobody digs deep and gets the real story. People are as dumb as rocks and that is what this current bunch of Constitution Tramplers want.
Why is Think Progress surprised that hypocrisy, falsehood, and disinformational rhetoric are the foundation of all this wanker of a President ever, ever has to say to the American people?
April 3rd, 2007 at 11:41 amComment by Patrick1 — April 3, 2007 @ 11:29 am
And Bush wants to veto the funding bill but doesn’t want to be blamed for vetoing it.
Do you have a point?
April 3rd, 2007 at 11:41 amApril 3rd, 2007 at 11:42 am
The crazy left needs to realize if they want to surrender to Islamo Facism there will be consequences to that surrender.
April 3rd, 2007 at 11:44 amComment by Patrick1type — April 3, 2007 @ 11:34 am
Oh please, ole abuser of the English language, tell us what those consequences would be. (and honestly, I’m amazed you even spelled consequences correctly)
Brits are planning kamikazi flights!
April 3rd, 2007 at 11:45 amThe first politician who claims the other side is playing “partisan politics” is the one who really is playing partisan politics.
Is “partisan politics” a redundant anyway?
April 3rd, 2007 at 11:46 amI don’t understand how he continually gets away with blaming Congress for not funding the troops. They have voted the funds–but he’s vetoing it. Ergo, Bush is the one holding up the funds. How come no one ever says that?
April 3rd, 2007 at 11:46 amThe crazy left needs to realize if they want to surrender to Islamo Facism there will be consequences to that surrender.
Comment by Patrick1 — April 3, 2007 @ 11:34 am
Everybody has a right to be stupid but you abuse the privilege.
How do we surrender in an undeclared war. Who would we surrender to? Since there will always be fundamentalist Muslims and Christians will we always be at war? Both seem in a big hurry for their “Rapture” so everybody else gets to suffer the burden.
April 3rd, 2007 at 11:47 am“The crazy left needs to realize if they want to surrender to Islamo Facism there will be consequences to that surrender.”
thought experiment: if a martian wanted to know why the march ‘08 deadline is a bad thing if the “surge” is “working”, what would charles krauthammer say?
April 3rd, 2007 at 11:47 amexcellent Shane- I was about to tell him to go F himself- but that was even better.
April 3rd, 2007 at 11:47 amI’m soooo scared of Islamofacist!!!!! HELP HELP HELP! You whiners! If you are Christian, you know how this story ends. If you do not; read the bible, Revelations is the book. For the rest of you, get somone with an IQ over 100 in the WH. The current POTUS and his gang are like a cartoon. We need to lead our lives based on positive human qualities and not FEAR! The terrorist have us where they want us…
OBTW, if you were a terrorist why would you choose to fight the US military in Iraq as opposed to traveling to the US and attacking here? I mean terrorist might be a lot of things but they are not generally STUPID! Leaving IRAQ won’t make a diff on that front.
April 3rd, 2007 at 11:49 amWell as we saw in the 1990s when the left failed to defend America against Islamo Fascism the result was the death of thousands of innocent Americans. When they flee the Islamists again it will result in the deaths of tens of thousands of Americans, Europeans and Muslims.
You can’t hide in America and hope the Islamists leave you alone. There are more important things in the world than multicultrualism.
When the left fled Somalia it lead to the death of 3,000 Americans now when they flee Iraq how many lives will it cost? Not that it will matter to the left, there is no number high enough to bring the moonbats into the fight against Islamo Fascism.
April 3rd, 2007 at 11:51 amLies, lies and more lies. F*&%ing hypocrit.
Only 657 days if he’s not removed by force.
F#*&ing lying sack of texas-sized sh&% is really pissing me off with his bulsshit rhetoric.
April 3rd, 2007 at 11:51 amThe US has been in Iraq for over 1,300 days and the situation is worse.
April 3rd, 2007 at 11:52 amGWBLSOS.
George W. Bush, Lying Sack of Shit.
-GSD
April 3rd, 2007 at 11:53 amWill the MSM follow TP’s lead on this story?? Don’t hold your breath.
April 3rd, 2007 at 11:54 amYes, it’s true that we shouldn’t just leave our troops to fend for themselves in Iraq without any funding to back them up. However, it’s not as though we’ve been stingy when it comes to this war. Over $340 billion has already gone towards the Iraq War. Think of how many issues are most likely being ignored due to the high concentration of energy and funds going towards Iraq. One of these important issues is global poverty. In 2000, 191 countries, including the United States agreed to the Millenium Goals, a plan to eliminate world hunger. According to the Borgen Project this can be accomplished with $19 billion annually. Where is Bush’s push to gain that funding?
April 3rd, 2007 at 11:54 amWe can’t have all this pork filled bills……
Comment by Real RedNeck
I find in ironic that after pissing away a SURPLUS and ignoring the passing of the largest pork-laden bills in history by a Repugnican congress for the past six years, the Right Wing is once again concerned about spending——-but only because the Democrats want to spend some money on their own projects.
April 3rd, 2007 at 11:54 amBush and Cheney must resign today, or they must be impeached > PERIOD.
April 3rd, 2007 at 11:55 amThe crazy left needs to realize if they want to surrender to Islamo Facism there will be consequences to that surrender.
Comment by Patrick1
It doesnt have to be that way, Pat. Blow your brains and gather with your Dear Almighty who is waiting you in Heaven.
April 3rd, 2007 at 11:56 am[…] ThinkProgress.org does a reality check on Bush’s “Fuzzy Math” from his statement. […]
April 3rd, 2007 at 11:58 am#41 Texas Juice
OBTW, if you were a terrorist why would you choose to fight the US military in Iraq as opposed to traveling to the US and attacking here?
I think it’s because the terrorists don’t know how to get here, so they’ll wait until U.S. troops leave Iraq and then follow them back.
Do I have that right, Patrick?
April 3rd, 2007 at 11:58 amI can’t believe I ever supported this guy. I think I need to go kill myself now.
April 3rd, 2007 at 11:59 ampatrick1, realredneck, enough BS - you love this war so much, tell everyone here in clear detail exactly why you aren’t over there risking your butts fighting right now, or if there is something active you are doing at home to help the effort. Do you have the guts? Without that answer you have absolutely no grounding whatsoever for your cowardly comments. Are the words pride, honor, justice just rhetoric for you? Pure vile cowardice, that is all you project.
April 3rd, 2007 at 12:00 pmPatrick- didn’t you get the memo? Your dumb ass neocons aren’t using the “islamo-fascist” thing anymore. Sounds stupid, get with the program. do you love imperial wars of agression or don’t you? Hiding in America, my god, you are stupid. Are you that afraid, don’t wet yourself little baby. BOO!
April 3rd, 2007 at 12:01 pmThe crazy left needs to realize if they want to surrender to Islamo Facism there will be consequences to that surrender.
Comment by Patrick1
And to what nation would we surrender? Islamo Facism doesnt even exist… it is a concoction of the very people that have been wrong about everything. Surrender to Osama? Hell we cant even find him.
The arabs have ZERO ways to invade America. There is no such thing as surrender in this case. But that word “surrender” sure makes red neck idiots get itchy though doesnt it.
April 3rd, 2007 at 12:02 pmAs Pelosi stated before, the debate is no longer about funding the war. Congress has agreed to fund the war. Bush has asked for a tremendous amount of money, and congress has agreed to give it to him. The debate is now about whether or not America wants to be in Iraq forever. I don’t think that they do. By setting benchmarks and timelines we assure that the Iraqis will eventually stand up and our troops can come home.
April 3rd, 2007 at 12:04 pmBush has these news conferences down pat. Doesn’t matter what question he gets, he slips and slides most of the time, and then flares his nostrils at other times, and keeps repeating the mantra of 9/11, followed by Karl Rove’s talking points. I know why Rove will never leave. Without him Bush wouldn’t know what to do. Now as bad as Bush is with his non-stop lies, spin and BS, what makes it worse are those MSM reporters who simply don’t have the moral courage to actually call Bush on his absolute refusal to ever actually answer a question. No, they just scribble down what Bush says, cuz that’s what they’re paid to DO. How can they call themselves news reporters when virtually everything Bush said this morning is the same old tired crap that he’s been spouting for the past two, three years. No news, just more of the same, ad nauseaum.
April 3rd, 2007 at 12:04 pmExtortionist
April 3rd, 2007 at 12:05 pmSince no improvement is being made on the Iraq War, we need to spend our resources on other issues such as global poverty in order to discourage more terrorism and wars. According to the Borgen Project, in reality only .16% of our federal budget is spent on poverty reduction, the least among wealthy nations. We should let our representatives know that we want change.
April 3rd, 2007 at 12:06 pmThere is no such thing as surrender in this case. But that word “surrender†sure makes red neck idiots get itchy though doesnt it.
Comment by ggibson — April 3, 2007 @ 12:02 pm
Surrender is a term that applies to war, not an occupation.
April 3rd, 2007 at 12:06 pmThe terrrrists will follow us here! G.W. Asswipe said that they did it on 9/11. Although we weren’t in Iraq or Afghanistan so they weren’t “following” us anywhere.
The Talking Points President. Courtesy of MC Rove-hole.
-GSD
April 3rd, 2007 at 12:07 pm#57 Great point about the reporters. A question I would like to hear asked. “Mr. President, why won’t you just sign or veto this bill?”
April 3rd, 2007 at 12:11 pmHmmm..withdrawal or permanant occupation.
-GSD
April 3rd, 2007 at 12:11 pmI called the White House comment line and left a comment pointing out the above information, and telling Bush to stop using the military and political cover, drop the act, and sign the bill. Congress has passed his supplemental bill (which I also pointed out he wouldn’t have had to send if he’d included the necessary money in his original budget), so at this point if he fails to sign that bill the only one not funding the troops is him.
(202) 456-111 if you’re so inclined.
April 3rd, 2007 at 12:11 pmHarry Truman a Democrat put American troops in the Korean peninsula for ever….
why is it that it is ok for a Democrat President to put our troops forever where ever they want, but not ok for a Republican President?
In fact, Harry Truman also put American troops in Europe forever…but I take it that is ok since it was a Democrat who did it, correct?
Do you guys not realize that by getting this bill to become law we are telling the terrorist when we are leaving? so they can wait until then, regroup and after the USA has left they can do whatever they want.
It is like telling Hitler the day of D-Day, right? or FDR, later Harry Truman, signing into a law a bill that would have demanded that all American troops be back from Asia and Europe by the end of 1945. What do you think Hitler and Japan would have done if they knew that all American troops were going to leave the battlefields by the end of 1945?
If we leave Iraq, and Iraq is a mess, do you guys honestly believe we won’t be back? If we don’t fight this war now, do you not think that our children will have to fight it at a later date?
I mean, most liberals are crying about global warming and how it is going to affect future generations. Why not take that to Iraq and if we leave now or within a year and things are not stable, how is that going to affect future American generations?
April 3rd, 2007 at 12:12 pmI still don’t fully understand how keeping 150,000 American troops and over 100,000 civilian contractors in Iraq keeps Saudi nationals from flying planes into our buildings.
April 3rd, 2007 at 12:13 pmThe Congress sez: “Bush we need more accountability on this war”
Bush sez: “That’ll hurt the troops”
Kinda backwards.
April 3rd, 2007 at 12:14 pmBush is Dan Quayle in cowboy boots according to Victor Gold, a decades long GOP insider in new book “Invasion of the Party Snatchers: How the Holy-Rollers and the Neo-Cons Destroyed the GOP.”
“For all the Rove-built facade of his being a ’strong’ chief executive, George W. Bush is the weakest, most out of touch president in modern times.”
April 3rd, 2007 at 12:14 pmWhat are the chances that an idiot like PatrickSmall1 has the faintest clue what the term “Fascism” actually means?
I mean, I’m sure he knows it means something bad, and I’m guessing that’s enough for him to embrace it. The fact that it ailgns far more tightly to his own ideology than to those he cuts out of cardboard to serve as his enemies is just a delicious topping of whipped irony.
April 3rd, 2007 at 12:15 pmThe right has already surrendered to Bin Laden and the extreme Islamists because the US and its allies are already doing exactly what they want, which is to not actively pursue them (in Afghanistan, maybe Pakistan) and to cause widespread instability in the Middle East, which will lead to greater instability and terrorism outside the region. The US has helped them to recruit more sympathizers then they could have ever done on their own.
April 3rd, 2007 at 12:16 pmI’ve changed my pea-sized mind. Bush is a worthless peice of shite of a President. I also masturbate to gay porn and love liberals.
April 3rd, 2007 at 12:18 pm“Harry Truman a Democrat put American troops in the Korean peninsula for ever….”
did 80 troops die in korea last month? must’ve missed that. and the i.e.d.’s in europe that are constantly injuring american troops, i think i missed those too.
April 3rd, 2007 at 12:20 pm59 days is nothing, for how many days has Bush ignored the will of the people?
April 3rd, 2007 at 12:20 pm#4 gumby
April 3rd, 2007 at 12:22 pmVery sad, Orwellian like and this is exactly how our current administration wants/needs our population to be dumbed down in order to perform their fascistic rule.
Comment by Captain Kirk
Hey dumb ass.
We WANT them to regroup.
That is when you have a missle armed Predator fly overhead.
Colonial Occupations are how you get many of your people killed and in the end you still leave. And yes it was wrong to setup permanent bases in any country. We should get out of South Korea and Europe. Our war making abilities are global now.
April 3rd, 2007 at 12:23 pmIts like he is saying “DO WHAT IS SAY AND NOBODY GETS HURT!!!”
April 3rd, 2007 at 12:24 pmNotice Bush caught himself calling it the “DEMOCRAT LEADERSHIP”, but then quickly changed and said “Democratic leadership.”
April 3rd, 2007 at 12:27 pm[…] Transcript: (more…) […]
April 3rd, 2007 at 12:29 pmThe Fraud That Bushies Told Us…
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17902403/
April 3rd, 2007 at 12:30 pmWhat, dubya playing politics, say it’s not so!
What an asshat
April 3rd, 2007 at 12:32 pmSo… is Bush trying to say that the Democratic Congress has NOT sent him a bill that would fund the troops? Is he just pretending that bill that passed the House and the Senate doesn’t exist?
What an effing baby. We have a freaking infant in the White House, people.
April 3rd, 2007 at 12:32 pmTexas Juice,
Ah but their policies do help them and their friends, that’s what it’s all about. They are not a government by the people or for the people they are an illegitimate government bent on looting the treasury.
April 3rd, 2007 at 12:36 pmSurrender is a term that applies to war, not an occupation.
Comment by Chris L — April 3, 2007 @ 12:06 pm
This is a hostile takeover not a war in any true sense.
April 3rd, 2007 at 12:39 pmHey, I don’t have to go to IRAQ if I don’t want to. People are volunteering for that mission. Besides, I know where we can find the troops, Canada. That bastion of liberal, islamo-facist loving people. Let’s round up all the AWOLS and send them to finish their obligations!
April 3rd, 2007 at 12:43 pmLet’s round up all the AWOLS and send them to finish their obligations!
Comment by Real RedNeck — April 3, 2007 @ 12:43 pm
I nominate DUHbya to lead the charge.
April 3rd, 2007 at 12:45 pmThe Bush apologists are hysterical. I thought “Mission” was “Accomplished”. Whatever happened to that?
The really amusing part is how fast you guys can completely reverse yourselves when the administration changes its story. Before Bush announced the “Surge”, most of you were arguing that we had all the troops necessary to “finish the job”, whatever the hell the job is.
I look forward to the 2008 election when we gain a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate and the Presidency. We can finally go about reversing the near permanent damage the Republicans have been doing to our great nation and the world for the last six years.
Almost equally, I look forward to the teeth-gnashing frustration you unpatriotic, greedy, racist little cowards will put on display every day at your sad little Internet bastions.
Enjoy you cheetoes and koolaid, but do try to get out of your mother’s basement once in a while. You’re getting pasty.
April 3rd, 2007 at 12:51 pmI still don’t fully understand how keeping 150,000 American troops and over 100,000 civilian contractors in Iraq keeps Saudi nationals from flying planes into our buildings.
Comment by Chris L — April 3, 2007 @ 12:13 pm
It doesn’t stop that and never did. It does however place us in the center of BILLIONS of barrels of OIL and billions of CUFT of NG.
April 3rd, 2007 at 12:54 pmH–Y–P–O–C–R–I, T–E SPELLS HYPOCRITE!!!!!
April 3rd, 2007 at 1:02 pmHE’S THE LIAR NOBODY EVER COULD SURPASS,
AN ANUS THAT PASSES NOXIOUS POISON GAS!
HE’S THE CREEP THAT EVERYBODY LOVES TO HATE
YOU DON’T WANT TO KNOW HIS HELLISH FATE!
H–Y–P–O–C–R–I, T–E, YOU’LL SEE
IT’S A SHAME
THAT HIS NAME
IS THE SAME
AS A CURSE ON YE,
MONKEY-BOY CHIMPya HYPOCRITE, THAT’S HE!!!!! TEE HEE!!!!!
(Sung to the Tune of HARRIGAN)
Surrender to Islamofascism?
Face the facts.
If American troops are still fighting in Iraq in October 2008, the Democrat who will win the November 2008 presidential election in a landslide, supported by an overwhelmingly Democratic Congress, will start troop withdrawal on Jan. 21, 2009.
We’re leaving Iraq by October 2008 or approximately four months later. You need to adjust to this reality.
April 3rd, 2007 at 1:07 pmComment by cowalker — April 3, 2007 @ 1:07 pm
Sorry but we are never leaving the Middle East. People don’t build things like this…
April 3rd, 2007 at 1:15 pmhttp://images.usatoday.com/ news/ _photos/ 2006/ 04/ 19/ embassy1-large.jpg
when you are simply going to pack up and go when your done.
Comment by seth — April 3, 2007 @ 11:47 am
Thank you. Is this a language Newt still approves of?
April 3rd, 2007 at 1:28 pmI love these lib-rags and commentary. You are all human shields to me that, just like most libs I know, are not doing your jobs! Go to Iraq and protect our troops with yourselves….allah willing.
April 3rd, 2007 at 1:30 pmThe crazy left needs to realize if they want to surrender to Islamo Facism there will be consequences to that surrender.
Comment by Patrick1
Einstein, we have two countries on our borders and neither one is Islamo Facist. Did you think Mexico or Canada is Iraq? You act like Iraq is walking distance to us and that all the terrorists are cornered, can’t get out, and no more will ever be created.
If we didn’t have all our soldiers so far away maybe they could be working, safely, defending our borders from any terrorists trying to enter the country. Does that not make any sense to you?
April 3rd, 2007 at 1:36 pmHe corrected himself (does that mean he made a mistake?)
April 3rd, 2007 at 1:50 pmAt one point he changed “Democrat leadership in Congress” to “Democratic leadership…”
He can learn!
Everyone knows that this fool on the hill never cared whether our military was fully equipped and sent them out without body armor. Now he’s attempting to connect dots to Democrats who have only been in the majority since January?? This time his “corporate spin” is not going to work. His reign is over and it’s just a matter of time till impeachment.
April 3rd, 2007 at 1:58 pmGeorge W. Bush = Master Manipulator of Truth and Agregious, Well Documented Liar Extraordinaire.
April 3rd, 2007 at 1:58 pmWhat’s the matter, Georgie poo? Won’t be able to finger the “money pot” any more? Get some from your Vice Thug then and Haliburton (cheney’s money pit).
April 3rd, 2007 at 1:59 pmNow who, other than his on-the-take base, would ever believe anything coming from the mouth of a known liar? No WMD’s = Outright lie.
April 3rd, 2007 at 2:00 pm[…] Think Progress: The US News Political Bulletin reported this morning that “White House strategists are now […]
April 3rd, 2007 at 2:00 pmvomit. vomit. pant. pant. groan.
April 3rd, 2007 at 2:07 pmMy dog was off-leash when that news-conference came on and I couldn’t stop him from eating a big mouthful of noxious horseshit and now he’s sick and I’m going to have to take him to the damn vet.
April 3rd, 2007 at 2:10 pmYeh you damn liberals hurry up and send that troop funding to Bush so he can veto it and not support the troops by vetoing it.
Hey wait a minute.
You damn liberals are gonna wait till the same amount of time it took the GOP to approve the spending bill and then George will veto it and it will be his fault that we didn’t support the troo…
Damn liberals, think your so damn smart.
If George vetos that bill it means that the we will be surrendering to those islamo-fascists!
Damn….
I got nothing. Sheeaht. -P3
April 3rd, 2007 at 2:20 pmI love these lib-rags and commentary. You are all human shields to me that, just like most libs I know, are not doing your jobs! Go to Iraq and protect our troops with yourselves….allah willing.
Comment by PatrickToo
Yeh P2 we can serve America much better by hiding behind our monitors and spewing baseless crap and make much better human shields for the war we wanted, who cares if them 9/11 guys were mostly Saudis, we need to send them liberals who didn’t want war to cover our chickenhwak war mongering patriotic asses!!
Hey..Damn I did it again. I got nuthin….
April 3rd, 2007 at 2:24 pmDubya might argue that the funding is needed for the troops, but I suspect that he really needs the funds for his mercenary army, principally Blackwater. The American people might be concerned that the troops might not receive the supplies and ammunition they need to protect themselves, but Dubya and Cheney are far more concerned that their mercs take a hike if the funding isn’t received on time.
Dubya could always sweet-talk the merc condottiere about their getting their funds when the Publicans controlled the Congress. Now, who knows if, when and how the mercs get their funding buried deep inside those supplementals with the Democrats riding herd in Congress. Dubya can’t sweet-talk them now, because they can see the real risk involved. He must produce, for the first time in the four benighted years since he plunged into Iraq without a plan or a clue.
How would you like to have mercs hopping mad at you because they couldn’t meet payroll to hired killers? All that matters to mercs is the money. Machiavelli was very clear on mercs. Don’t deal with them - ever. Sound advice.
April 3rd, 2007 at 2:38 pmThe crazy left needs to realize if they want to surrender to Islamo Facism there will be consequences to that surrender.
Comment by Patrick1
Yeh like after the first Gulf war where 500,000 Kurds died after Senior pulled out!
Oh..Dayum.
Yeh we will put sanctions on Iraq so they can’t come and attack us like before and..
Damnit to Hades#$#&@!
There will be consequences cause Bechtel and Halliburton will pull out..
Sheeaht, they already did..$%$#@&$#*
Iraq will create more WMD and make more of those UAVs that can hit America in 45 minutes and,,,,
Crap, that sheeaht was all debunked. &*$%$
Yeh well Hillary says the troops will de redeployed to the border and that will make Iraq unsafe because the insurgents can’t get in…..
Feck. You smart ass liberals.
Victor Gold, a friend of George H.W. Bush and the Cheney family, will release a book slamming the Bush administration entitled, “Invasion of the Party Snatchers: How the Holy-Rollers and the Neo-Cons Destroyed the GOP”
Hell, I got nuthin again.
ITS ALL BILL CLINTONS FAULT!!!
*sniff sniff* I’m gonna go cry now, seems us 101st Keyboard warriors have really really fecked up but good.. *sniff sniff*
I can’t even obsess over the big dogs Clenis any more…*Sob, sniffle, whine, Sob, Sniff*
April 3rd, 2007 at 2:40 pmI believe congress should cut the funding to the Iraq war or at least put very strict oversight on the President’s prosecution of the war.
However, I’d have felt a lot better if it hadn’t taken quite so much pork to get our own party to vote for this funding bill. I know Nancy Pelosi got it done however she could, but we need to remember who the reps who held out for bribes are, and remind them at a later date.
April 3rd, 2007 at 2:42 pm[…] how long it took congress to pass the bill, even though he praised his own party when they took twice as long. He lambasted Congress for taking a vacation, then left for vacation himself. He mocked […]
April 3rd, 2007 at 4:27 pm[…] Think Progress accurately notes that when Congress was under Republican control, it took 86 days to pass the $82 billion 2005 supplemental, and 119 days to pass the $72 billion 2006 supplemental. Also, remember that the President has vowed to veto the supplemental spending plan passed by the House and Senate because it includes a timetable for withdrawal from Iraq, something that polls show the American electorate desires. […]
April 3rd, 2007 at 4:42 pmWhat do we need funding for?
April 3rd, 2007 at 4:45 pmIsn’t it one thousand -?-hundred and ? days since “mission accomplished” was announced for Iraq (see Keith Olbermann for the exact number of days).
Funding? Were finished! We don’t need funding!
[…] [Update: See Think Progress about the 57 days.] […]
April 3rd, 2007 at 4:51 pmWhat I’d like to see someone do is take a look at the previous funding bills and show how much pork was in THOSE bills.
Now that the Democrats are in charge all of a sudden the bills are laden with pork?
Gimme a break.
April 3rd, 2007 at 5:32 pm[…] via Think Progress […]
April 3rd, 2007 at 7:20 pmIf Congress fails to act soon, Bush said, “the price of that failure will be paid by our troops and their loved ones.â€
Congress will do no worse than Bush has.
April 3rd, 2007 at 8:04 pmTripe for the Cultists. Go Go Daddy Dubya!!
April 3rd, 2007 at 9:55 pmNow that the Democrats are in charge all of a sudden the bills are laden with pork?
Gimme a break.
Comment by paul
You’re kidding, right? Do some research — I dare you.
April 3rd, 2007 at 10:06 pm[…] - Bush is tantruming because his supplemental funding request has taken 57 days and counting to get through Congress. He doesn’t mention that under the Republican 109th Congress, the other two supplementals took 86 days in 2005 and 119 days in 2006. - Think Progress […]
April 3rd, 2007 at 11:49 pm[…] new tactic: counting the days since he sent Congress his war funding request. Reason it won’t work: nobody will believe […]
April 4th, 2007 at 5:57 am“President Accountability” doesn’t like it much when he’s the one being held accountable.
April 4th, 2007 at 9:21 amI have never known anyone who so insidiously tries to place blame on others than our President.
April 4th, 2007 at 9:27 am[…] spoke with White House spokeswoman Dana Perino asked her why, if President Bush is expressing a sense of urgency about the Iraq bill, did he leave for Crawford? Perino responded: “The President is taking a […]
April 4th, 2007 at 12:23 pmBush will go down in history as the most prolific liar in history and the worst person to steal the oval office and be named #43. The troops will survive without Congress going on vacation, They will survive if the funds can be cut off for this debacle aka civil war. Where they will survive is coming home!
Bush is looking for more troops to send to Iraq, He has at least 500,000 he uses for props at photo ops. He never goes before an audiance that will give him hell. All his press speaches are programed to make him look good.
America cannot survive the remaining 19 months of him being in office!
IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
April 4th, 2007 at 12:47 pmCapt. Kirk.
April 4th, 2007 at 1:47 pmThat’s a good point about democratic presidents putting troops in places and leaving them there!
I’m with you. We should pull out of Korea, Japan, and Europe, as well as Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. And out of Afghanistan as soon as we’re done.
And stop the secret wars we’ve been fighting in south and central america since Carter and Reagan!
Hijol!
[…] is all political posturing of course. As some have pointed out, the Democratic ruled Congress is acting quite fast compared to the Republican ruled 109th […]
April 4th, 2007 at 1:57 pmI wish I could sit around and f**k up good American citizens lives and then later that nite watch triple chin MC ROVE in full affect. I wish I could buy an expensive pair of shoes while the good people of New Orleans die from a crappy levee system like our favorite girl, Condo-lizard Rice. I wish I had come up with the plan to scare Americans s**tless with “TERROR” and then retire to my ranch in Crawford and have a toot of coke with my good buddy Bin Laden. BTW, has anybody seen that F**ker, he owes me money! I wish I could proclaim myself the “DECIDER” and not give a s**t about the poor and “DECIDE whats best for them and the rest of the world. I wish I had known that Americans were so stupid then I could have defrauded the U.S. Treasury to the tune of 300 trillion dollars. IMPEACH G. W. BUSH & Co.
April 5th, 2007 at 3:52 pm[…] as the weblog Think Progress noted, in both 2005 and 2006, when Republicans controlled Congress, legislators took significantly longer […]
April 9th, 2007 at 5:07 am