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| Democrats ready to fight new war plan |
| 2007-01-12 |
| Democrats yesterday attacked President Bush's new plan to send more U.S. troops to Iraq and began laying the groundwork for a showdown between the executive and legislative branches over war powers. "Escalation of this war is not the change the American people called for in the last election," Democratic Whip Sen. Richard J. Durbin of Illinois said last night in his party's response to Mr. Bush's prime-time presentation of his Iraq strategy changes. "Instead of a new direction, the president's plan moves the American commitment in Iraq in the wrong direction." The new Democratic-led Congress plans to grill Bush administration officials during Capitol Hill hearings on the Iraq war -- beginning this morning when Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates testify before congressional committees. Sen. Charles E. Schumer, New York Democrat, said Americans want to know whether Mr. Bush's strategy is a "change of course." "Or is this simply more of the same with slightly different rhetoric?" Mr. Schumer said. Miss Rice will testify before the Senate and House foreign relations committees today, and Mr. Gates, who replaced the war's architect Donald H. Rumsfeld last month, will testify before the House Armed Services Committee today and the Senate Armed Services Committee tomorrow. Democratic leaders also are drafting a nonbinding resolution opposing the troop surge, which they want to put up for a vote in both the House and Senate next week and which they think some Republicans will support. "The issue is: Do you support the president's policy? That will be the vote," said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, California Democrat. Sen. Sam Brownback, Kansas Republican and a favorite of conservatives, last night said Mr. Bush's troop surge is not the answer. "Iraq requires a political rather than a military solution," he said. Mr. Bush said he will send more than 17,000 soldiers to Baghdad and 4,000 Marines to the Anbar province to try to break the cycle of violence and "hasten the day our troops begin coming home." He said Iraq has responsibilities that it must meet. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #9 They're NOT gonna take "it", NOOOOOOO, they're not gonna take "it" ..... They're gonna fight, for our right, to ......... Well iff the Amer people don't know whom are the Dems to tell us/them??? D *** ng it, THIS IS AMERIKA, NOT AMERICA, THE FOUNDING FATHERS INTENDED FOR AMERICA TO BE A CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC = DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC = REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY = REPUBLICAN FORM OF GUBMINT, NOT A DEMOCRACY - you know, SIMPLE DEMOCRACY = ANY AND ALL FORMS OF DEMOCRACY. D *** ng it, America was young, dum, and Socialist-Govtist-Totalitarianist, but just didn't know it until Alec Baldin proved America bombed Pearl Harbor!? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2007-01-12 20:28 |
| #8 I just flushed my toilet of Coleman and Brownback, men or mice? mice |
| Posted by: Captain America 2007-01-12 16:38 |
| #7 OMG, I'm sorry I screwed up the last post, Fred. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2007-01-12 13:00 |
| #6 So what was the Dhimmicrat plan again? Oh, right, surrender. |
| Posted by: Excalibur 2007-01-12 09:25 |
| #5 AC - Are you teasing us? C'mon! Whadda you know that I don't know? |
| Posted by: Bobby 2007-01-12 06:03 |
| #4 They are betting the ranch that Bush's revamped war plan will fail. Today, a Rep. Abercrombie (D-Beirut) was raving that it was the dumbest thing he had ever heard of, or words to that effect. Dennis Kucinich (D-Pluto) and Keith Ellison (AQ-Mecca) have called for immediate unconditional withdrawal of all US forces from Iraq, with Basra apparently to serve as a new Dunkirk. Similar screeds have been heard from Rodent-infested districts all over America. They know that these pronouncements will be re-played ad nauseum in 2008 if the plan actually works. They will look like fools, cowards, and worse; but they are sublimely confident that won't happen. There is a lot they don't know, or don't understand, about the reasons for Bush's confidence. There are some things very few people know----for now. |
| Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy 2007-01-12 05:24 |
| #3 I fought the war and the war won. |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2007-01-12 00:25 |
| #2 I'm sure Condi and Gates have nothing better to do than sit there and listen to the donks blather for hours on end. |
| Posted by: Mike N. 2007-01-12 00:23 |
| #1 Democrats ready to fight new war plan As usual, not willing to fight anything substantial. |
| Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 2007-01-12 00:23 |