This story in today's Washington Post touches on the mater, but the Post's liberal bias downplays or ignores two important facts concerning the Dems' spending bill.
First of course is the fact that the bill is supposed to be about providing funds for our troops so that they can win the war and come home. But typical of the Dems, they added over twenty billion dollars for their own pet projects, or into the districts of other legislators that hadn't been inclined to vote for the bill before. (Anywhere but the Capitol, that would be called "a bribe".) Some of those "emergency war expenditures" covered things like $74 million for peanut storage, $25 million for spinach growers and $100 million for citrus growers. It also includes $16 million to convert the old Food and Drug Administration building in southwest D.C. into more office space for the Capitol. That "emergency" expenditure comes at a time when taxpayers already shell out $600 million "more than double the original estimate" for a mammoth expansion of the Capitol, which includes 160,000 feet of new office space.
None of that is related to the war at all and shouldn't have been tacked on, especially by the party that's been screaming that the war is costing so much. Well one reason that it costs so much is that certain members of congress are inflating the cost and funneling they money back into their own pork projects.
The second thing that's critical--and the Post completely omits this--is that the Dems are claiming that they want to stop the war and pull our troops out. They put a provision into the bill requiring our troops' withdrawal from Iraq, but they aren't to be withdrawn now. Oh no. The bill calls for them to be withdrawn in August, 2008--in the middle of the next electoral campaign. You see, Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi and Senator Harry Reid and their followers want to use the pullout for political advantage, and they intend for our troops to stay in Iraq until election time, at which point they'll be forced to leave so that Dems running for election or re-election can scream: "look at the failure of the Bush Administration's war!" That's appalling on so many levels and if there were really justice in America, citizens from all over the country would converge on the Capitol and just start moving the furniture and possessions of legislators like Pelosi and Reid out to the curb. They should be evicted from office for this massive breach of the public trust.
If they really wanted the troops out of Iraq, they could have called for them to be removed tomorrow. But they aren't interested in that. They want our men and women to stay over there and fight a war that they claim is wrong, and continue to take casualties that they say our troops should not be suffering for 18 more months so that the pullout can help them politically in their efforts to seize control of our nation not based on Democrat accomplishments but on the perception of Bush failure which they the Democrats, are contriving to bring about...but not until it's to their benefit, of course.
I as an American call "foul" and demand that every Democrat against the war say so and either vote to pull our troops out immediately or just shut up about it forever.
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