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Topic started on 29-3-2007 @ 10:14 AM by LuDaCrIs

Breaking: Senate approves '08 goal to bring troops home


www.reuters.com
The Senate on Thursday defied President George W. Bush by passing a war-funding bill setting a goal of withdrawing all American combat soldiers from Iraq within a year.

(visit the link for the full news article)



[edit on 29-3-2007 by UM_Gazz]


reply posted on 29-3-2007 @ 03:00 PM by Infoholic
I didn't realize that there were two threads over the same news topic. I'll share my thoughts here, too.

I foresee one of two things happening...

1. President Bush will sign a veto and send the bill back to Congress, at which time Congress will (and can) pass the bill into law, anyway. Thus, putting the voice of America back into the White House over the Iraq conflict issue. Bush gets his money for the troops, but has to get them out.

2. President Bush will sit on the bill (pocket veto) and nothing will be done, and no money will be appropriated for "the troops", as Bush has cried for. As Bush has made it clear, he will attempt to coerce the American populous to think that Congress is at fault for not funding the troops, thus sending them to their deaths.


One other thing that I would like to see, is Congress get off their lazy cowardly asses and repeal
Public Law 107–40 (War on Terror) and Public Law 107–243 (Use of Military Force in Iraq).


Promised veto unlikely to be overridden

Democrats acknowledge they do not have enough support in Congress to override Bush's veto, but say they will continue to ratchet up the pressure until he changes course.


I sure hope that all you ATS'ers out there write your Congressperson and urge/implore them to support these bills if/when Bush does in fact veto the bill.

Here's the means of contacting your representatives.

Senators may be contacted via this webpage.
House Representatives may be contacted via this page.

Without the voice of the American people "speaking", Bush can and will essentially do as he wishes, and that is not how it is supposed to be.

The Government works for the American people, not the other way around.


reply posted on 29-3-2007 @ 03:09 PM by Hal9000
Here is a direct link to the article:

Senate approves '08 goal to bring troops home

You may want to update that because Reuters may move it from their home page.

No doubt that Bush will veto the bill. He said it was a bad bill not only because of the pullout date, but also because it contains pork. The attachments are to supply funding for other things like Walter Reed Hospital and veterans. How can he veto this bill and then say it is the democrats that don't support the troops?



reply posted on 29-3-2007 @ 04:33 PM by Infoholic
Originally posted by ConstantlyWondering
So do you want the US to lose this war? Sounds like it marg6043. As for me I love my troops and wouldn't dare put them in harms way without funding. What country are you posting from?


First and Foremost, CW... there's never been an official declaration of war. However, there was a modest attempt at declaring war on "terror", of which is kind of hard to do, since the war on terror is a war with a ghost.

Furthermore, the US would not "lose this war", because they accomplished in three weeks time of what they set out to do (or so according to one of the many lies sold to the American public by the Bush Administration). The continuance of the fighting in Iraq is a Civil War, it is not a war that the U.S. needs to be in the middle of.

In essence, the Bush Administration put not only the troops, but our fellow Americans here at home in more harms way by enticing the hatred of American people by following through with his agenda, whatever that may have been.

By me making sure that my child has the funding to purchase alcohol and drive under the influence... does that mean that I love my child? Poor way to equate your love.


marg6043, I too have family members that have been taken from us through the wars over the years. I can completely understand your point of view.


By no stretch of the means, does requesting that our brethren be brought home indicate that anyone not support or love the troops. If anything, love for our soldiers is shown by bringing them home to safety, as apposed to forcing them to continue to put their lives in harms way for no good reason at all.
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