Dem Congress Means Iraq Pullout Soon

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CSpindizzy

CSpindizzy

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There are some conservative pundits and voices like David Limbaugh making absurd statements like this to scare voters to turn out and vote GOP 'for the sake of the troops and mission in Iraq'. Considering Congress cannot decide this and Bush and Cheney have already said this won't happen, are leading conservative voices stooping to deliberate lying to scare people?
 
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CSpindizzy said:
There are some conservative pundits and voices like David Limbaugh making absurd statements like this to scare voters to turn out and vote GOP 'for the sake of the troops and mission in Iraq'. Considering Congress cannot decide this and Bush and Cheney have already said this won't happen, are leading conservative voices stooping to deliberate lying to scare people?
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Of course!

Lets see, I have had Bill Clinton and Laura Bush call my house over the past few days....at this point I want Bubba back!
 
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John Ashcroft has called my house 5 times in two weeks. At this point I went ahead and invited him over to dinner.
 
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CSpindizzy said:
There are some conservative pundits and voices like David Limbaugh making absurd statements like this to scare voters to turn out and vote GOP 'for the sake of the troops and mission in Iraq'. Considering Congress cannot decide this and Bush and Cheney have already said this won't happen, are leading conservative voices stooping to deliberate lying to scare people?
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i'm all for a pull out.:birgits_giggle:
 
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Technically possible but who would commit political suicide and not fund the troops?
 
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CSpindizzy said:
Technically possible but who would commit political suicide and not fund the troops?
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Pelosi, Kennedy, Rangel, etc. Probably not career suicide for them to do it. If Rangel is House finance chairman then he can kill any military funding bill that gives money to the Iraq mission wihtout even having a vote depending on what procedural rules the the Ds adopt. I'm not taking sides. Just saying that it can be done.
 
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Like I said, technically it is possible but it would be political suicide. Perhaps their districts wouldn't mind that but that move would wipe the Dem Party off the map for 2008.
 
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You'd think it would, but everyone in a moderate/conservative district could just say 'Please show me where I ever voted against Iraq." No vote=no proof. Happens all the time.
 
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CSpindizzy said:
There are some conservative pundits and voices like David Limbaugh making absurd statements like this to scare voters to turn out and vote GOP 'for the sake of the troops and mission in Iraq'. Considering Congress cannot decide this and Bush and Cheney have already said this won't happen, are leading conservative voices stooping to deliberate lying to scare people?
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if only it were the 1st time they'd done such a thing...
 
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On the issue of pulling funding for the OIF...

Doesn't the Constitution state that the Congress can raise funds for wars covering a period of two years? I haven't done all the research yet, but I would imagine that the next two years are covered. If the situation in Iraq does not look much greater to the American public in two years, then I am in full support of a drastic change in course.

To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years

Article 1, Section 8
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VolunteerHillbilly said:
You'd think it would, but everyone in a moderate/conservative district could just say 'Please show me where I ever voted against Iraq." No vote=no proof. Happens all the time.
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I agree with Cspin on this one. Forcing a change in strategy is one thing. Defunding the troops to the point that we are forced to bring them home would be political suicide.
 
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GAVol said:
I agree with Cspin on this one. Forcing a change in strategy is one thing. Defunding the troops to the point that we are forced to bring them home would be political suicide.
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And I agree with you both.

Lets remember that there will be less than one year to act in the beltway. The presidential election cycle will take root very soon, and we all know how much real movement occurs in this period.

There is time to establish intent and direction. Very little to actually turn policy.
 
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