George W. Bush, one of the worst presidents ever and the architect of American failure in Iraq is going to ask the Congress for a $50 Billion blank check.
President Bush plans to ask Congress next month for up to $50 billion in additional funding for the war in Iraq, a White House official said yesterday, a move that appears to reflect increasing administration confidence that it can fend off congressional calls for a rapid drawdown of U.S. forces.
The request — which would come on top of about $460 billion in the fiscal 2008 defense budget and $147 billion in a pending supplemental bill to fund the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq — is expected to be announced after congressional hearings scheduled for mid-September featuring the two top U.S. officials in Iraq. Army Gen. David H. Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan C. Crocker will assess the state of the war and the effect of the new strategy the U.S. military has pursued this year.
The request is being prepared now in the belief that Congress will be unlikely to balk so soon after hearing the two officials argue that there are promising developments in Iraq but that they need more time to solidify the progress they have made, a congressional aide said.
The Democratic congress has achieved mediocre ratings not because they’ve passed good legislation on the minimum wage, stem cell research, ethics reform and the like but because they have capitulated time and time and time again to the President on the seminal issue of our time. Iraq is a giant suck hole pulling in billions of dollars, thousands of lives, and the security of a nation. This commander in chief is a miserable failure and there is absolutely no sense of any sort in continuing to give him rope with which to hang the American military and public.
The Congress needs to show the American people that it stands for the principles for which it earned its majority or it will sacrifice its morality.
This is all part of the Republican strategy with the White House authored "Petraeus" report containing more of the same swill we have heard for over four years now about "victory" being right around the corner.
The answer is obviously “no.”
Unfortunately, after the last debacle I think most Dems would rather endorse the slaughter ad infinitum than have to hear themselves called bad words by the likes of Bill O’Reilly and Rush Limbaugh.
Sad.
As the others have quipped, you have a better chance of winning the Powerball than the Democrats finding their spine (or buying new ones)
It’ll be a bit of egg on the face if the so-called ‘failure’ in Iraq ends up being a success.
Perhaps that’s why much of the left is so committed to making sure they get us out before that happens.
It’ll be a bit of egg on the face if the so-called ‘failure’ in Iraq ends up being a success.
In theory I could have a three way with Jessica Alba, Jessica Biel and Jessica Simpson but it’s similarly unlikely to happen.
I need to get off my ass and handwrite Congressman Mitchell a letter. I keep meaning to, but it’s very hard to be polite to him when every fiber of my being just wants to scream “WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING? DO YOU UNDERSTAND WHY WE ELECTED YOU?”
I don’t expect it’ll make a lick of difference, but it’ll at least make me feel like I did SOMETHING.
Yashmak: “It’ll be a bit of egg on the face if the so-called ‘failure’ in Iraq ends up being a success.”
And it’ll be a bit of egg on the face if Bush starts farting rainbows and healing the blind. Maybe we should wait until THAT happens to pull out of Iraq. I hear he only needs six more months!
“Perhaps that’s why much of the left is so committed to making sure they get us out before that happens.”
Or perhaps it’s because the right’s been telling us we’re less than six months away from victory for over four years and we’re sick of paying for your stupidity with human lives.
Nah, that couldn’t be it.
“Perhaps that’s why much of the left is so committed to making sure they get us out before that happens.”
Maybe you should be asking yourself why the right is so desperate to deny what is actually happening in Iraq right now, as we speak. Cuz gee George Bush sure would have egg on his face if iraq turned into a total clusterfuck wouldn’t he?
First point:
“In theory I could have a three way with Jessica Alba, Jessica Biel and Jessica Simpson…” That would be a four way.
Second point:
Sure the Dems will find their balls–Bush will ask for $50, they’ll show how tough they are by offering $75! That’ll show how tough they are!
Kinda sucks, don’t it?
Yashmak -
And success would be defined as…?
I eagerly await your response to this perpetually unanswered question.
“Maybe you should be asking yourself why the right is so desperate to deny what is actually happening in Iraq right now, as we speak”
Maybe you should explain where you get your all-knowing-god-like-super powers that give you perfect clarity and knowledge of what’s going on in Iraq “right now as we speak”?
“We live in a bubble,” grumbles one AP reporter. “If we know one percent of what’s going on in Iraq, we’re lucky.”
“…continuing to give him rope with which to hang the American military and public.”
Dude! You talk about hanging the military and the american people when it’s your party who has worked tirelessly to undermine our troops as well as our national security?
Dumbass!
“Maybe you should explain where you get your all-knowing-god-like-super powers …”
And you write this just before citing a reporter’s quote from 2004 after three more years of carnage and chaos have passed … brilliant. ..
“… when it’s your party who has worked tirelessly to undermine our troops as well as our national security?”
Um, are you suggesting that the dems haven’t given bush basically everything he’s asked for to prosecute his war his way? Could you please point the legislation passed under the dems that has undermined our troops?
You talk about hanging the military and the american people when it’s your party who has worked tirelessly to undermine our troops as well as our national security?
Bullshit and STFU. Keep your hollow talking points outside so they don’t stink up the joint.
Dude! Prove it!
Let me help, with some Google keywords:
9/11
Anthrax
Body Armor
Uparmored Humvee
Walter Reed
NIE
Abu Ghraib
Haditha
Blackwater
KBR
Halliburton
Katrina
Habeus Corpus
Non-proliferation Treaty
Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty
and so on…and so on…and so on…
Wingers, digging deep to find untapped reserves of stupid.
Nothing has changed regarding the reporting out of Iraq since those comments were made in 2004. If anything, it’s gotten worse.
Bartle Bull, who has written about Iraq for the New York Times and lived with a family in Sadr City, went so far as to suggest that the errors of hotel journalism were not those of laziness as much as a “weirdly personal” obsession with the notion that Iraq must fail.
no
Oooh, Bartle Bill “suggested” something.
Well, let’s see, as an American citizen who has been living in America, I’d like to “suggest” that the reason we haven’t defeated either the Taliban or al-Qaida or the Iraqi insurgency is not so much because of poor strategy and mismanagement of resources as it is a strange obsession with perpetual war.
No.
“In theory I could have a three way with Jessica Alba, Jessica Biel and Jessica Simpson but it’s similarly unlikely to happen.”
No you couldn’t, cause that would be four people, which is enough to be called an orgy.
“Nothing has changed …”
William please don’t tell me you’re one of those ‘The good news just isn’t getting out of iraq’ drones. Because those people are idiots.
““We live in a bubble,” grumbles one AP reporter. “If we know one percent of what’s going on in Iraq, we’re lucky.””
Where as William, living stateside in someone’s basement, knows all that is going on in Iraq and says “Go forth and die (but not me).”
Bush will get the $50 billion as the first installment of Operation Irani Liberation.
Poor Congress just can’t say no to serial warmongers. It just isn’t patriotic, you know.
“William please don’t tell me you’re one of those ‘The good news just isn’t getting out of iraq’ drones. Because those people are idiots.”
I’m sure he knows more about the situation in Iraq than the soldiers who wrote that Op-Ed piece. The one the MSM ignored because they were too busy calling Iraqi war cheerleaders critics.
The reason the left knows that Iraq will be a failure is because it is already a failure on its own terms. We expected to spend about $50 billion total and are now looking at $1 trillion. How could that be looked at any other way?
The reason that the left wants us out ASAP is because we don’t want to spend another trillion seeing if we can justify the expense of the first.
My first mentor described it this way: When you fuck up, own your fuck-up and don’t create new fuck-ups.
‘It’ll be a bit of egg on the face if the so-called ‘failure’ in Iraq ends up being a success.
Perhaps that’s why much of the left is so committed to making sure they get us out before that happens.’
And just what have you seen in the last 4.5 years that has convinced you that there is any ’success’ whatsoever to be had in this festering disaster?
‘It’ll be a bit of egg on the face if the so-called ‘failure’ in Iraq ends up being a success.
Perhaps that’s why much of the left is so committed to making sure they get us out before that happens.’
And just what have you seen in the last 4.5 years that has convinced you that there is any ’success’ whatsoever to be had in this festering disaster?
“And just what have you seen in the last 4.5 years that has convinced you that there is any ’success’ whatsoever to be had in this festering disaster?”
I bet he couldn’t even give a concrete definition for success.
We’ve been asking dugger that for almost a year now with no results.
How would we know victory if we reached it?