Reply #67: The soldiers you talked to obviously want to *STAY* there.

[Seabiscuit]

And we all know those soldiers are in the extreme minority.

There are NO "shortages" of funds. Just "shortages" of allocation of funds, e.g. the Walter Reid embroglio. This is a *supplemental* spending bill, for an extra $100 Billion on top of the billions already allocated for the year last fall, earmarked by Bush because he wants to justify his "surge" to the public. Bush has *too much* money to spend already on his stupid war.

If Bush wants even more money, he can go after the $10 billion his cronies at Halliburton supposedly "lost". That's on top of their grotesque overcharges. His cronies at Halliburton alone can afford to support the troops for months to come, just on the profits from their obscene war profiteering.

The Dems in Congress have shamed themselves, not only to the voters but to the media. See, e.g.: http://www.theage.com.au/news/World/Democrats-cave-in-to-funding-Iraq-war/2007/05/23/1179601441287.html - Dems have "caved in" to Bush's intransigency (this article just popped up on my homepage, Google News). What a hell of a legacy. The Dem leadership in Congress has just bought the right and obligation to have this war deemed a "bipartisan" war instead of a "Republican" war. Fuck those cowardly two-faced assholes, and I do mean you, Nancy Pelosi et. al. It makes a mockery of democracy and the will of the voters as expressed in the November 2006 election results (even after the Diebold et. al. machine fixes were in).

Let's all get something straight: This war is an obscenity. Anything that supports the contuation of this war is obscenity. This proposed bill supports the continuation of this war without any check on Bush's power to continue it, without any consequences for failure of the Iraqi government to meet unspecified "benchmarks" of "progress". It gives Bush the right and power to ignore everything in it beyond the money it grants him to continue perpetuing this obscencity. It therefore is nothing more than a Repuke-style "blank-check" for the war. It stinks. It's obscene. And its supporters are themselves obscene.

I watched in abject disgust Nancy Pelosi's press conference remarks about it all: she basically is conceding that in view of the upcoming recess, Congress is not willing to do squat about this war until October, when it will be called upon to respond to Bush's annual budgetary request for war spending. Meanwhile she just lied through her teeth about this bill supposedly representing some kind of message that Congress is saying the war must come to an end. I'm so disappointed and disgusted with her leadership that I could puke.