Reply #147: While the Dems move forward in increments, people will die in droves. Can you accept that?

[MadHound]

I can't, and the majority of Americans can't either.

As far as your understanding of how the funding process works, well, it seems grossly lacking. Bush cannot, simply cannot shift money from either the regular military budget, or any other budget to fund his war. Why in the hell do you think he has to come up with special war funding bills:shrug:

If he shifts money from the regular budget, or any other budget, he's screwed. It isn't a matter of legality that will be decided, it is a matter of government revolt that he'll have to deal with. Impeachment will be the least of his worries, criminal charges will indeed be in the offing. And while you scoff at Republicans ability to get on board with impeachment, I would suggest that you go check out who was controlling the House at the time of Nixon's fiasco. Impeachment was such a looming possibility that he resigned. Even Republicans have their limits on Presidential shennanigans, and will do the right thing when the shit hits the fan.

Speaking of the Nixon years, please explain to me how come the defunding of the Vietnam war worked well, and why it wouldn't now? And please, don't resort to paranoid fantasies concernning bankrupting government and other such nonsense. It simply can't, and won't happen.

We don't need votes, we have committee control. We have the backing, nay, the demanding of the majority of the population to get us the hell out of Iraq now. Not by increments, not in some mythical future, but NOW. The time has come, defund the war and bring the troops home.

Anything else is excuses, rationalizing and frankly bullshit.