What The President Said

Hey folks,

Yesterday I posted the President’s radio address and I said, I love the way he is starting to get a little more, well, Presidential. He is getting more and more forceful with those in Congress that have chosen a path toward our loss in Iraq. Here is what I mean.

The President said,

"This week I extended an invitation to congressional leaders of both parties to come to the White House so we can discuss the emergency war funding our troops are waiting for. When we meet on Wednesday, I look forward to hearing how Members of Congress plan to meet their responsibilities and provide our troops with the funding they need."

Translation. I’m tired of playing games with our soldiers lives because they just want to play politics instead of doing what is right.

"Supporting our troops is a solemn responsibility of all elected officials in Washington, D.C. So 68 days ago, I sent Congress an emergency war spending bill that would provide the vital funds needed for our troops on the front lines. But instead of approving this funding, Democrats in Congress have spent the past 68 days pushing legislation that would undercut our troops. They passed bills that would impose restrictions on our military commanders and set an arbitrary date for withdrawal from Iraq, giving our enemies the victory they desperately want."

I LOVE this statement. Again, we are in a war, you are playing games. Folks, he just came right out and said that they, the LWL {Left Wing Looneys} WANT us to lose. Can you hear the anger in this next statement?

"The Democrats' bills also spend billions of dollars on domestic projects that have nothing to do with the war, such as funding for tours of the United States Capitol and for peanut storage. And after passing these unacceptable bills in the House and Senate, Democratic leaders then chose to leave town without sending any legislation to my desk."

Because not only are they Traitors, they are also cowards.

"The Senate came back to Washington earlier this week, but the House is still on its Easter recess. Meanwhile, our troops are waiting for the funds. And to cover the shortfall, our military may be forced to consider what Army General Pete Schoomaker has called "increasingly draconian measures.""

They think that if they, the LWL, delay funding, this would mean the President would have no choice but to surrender to the enemy. Not true. The President continued,

"In the next few days, our military leaders will notify Congress that they will be forced to transfer $1.6 billion from other military accounts to make up for the gaps caused by Congress' failure to fund our troops in the field. That means our military will have to take money from personnel accounts so they can continue to fund U.S. Army operations in Iraq and elsewhere.

This $1.6 billion in transfer comes on top of another $1.7 billion in transfers that our military leaders notified Congress about last month. In March, Congress was told that the military would need to take money from personnel accounts, weapons and communications systems, so we can continue to fund programs that protect our troops from improvised explosive devices and send hundreds of mine-resistant vehicles to the front lines. These actions are only the beginning, and the longer Congress delays the worse the impact on the men and women of the Armed Forces will be."

You see folks, what he said here is that Congress is FULLY aware of what is going on. They were TOLD that if they do not fund this, the money needed will come from elsewhere. They STILL chose to do it. They still choose to continue to withhold the funds. They ARE hurting the troops in the field and the ones here at home and their families, and pretty much doing a lot of damage to our troops as a whole. So the next time that they say, "We support the troops" {By the way, notice they have pretty much stopped saying that?} you can know the truth. The TRUTH is they do NOT support the troops. They do NOT care about them. They are nothing but pawns to them.

"I recognize that Republicans and Democrats in Washington have differences over the best course in Iraq, and we should vigorously debate those differences. But our troops should not be trapped in the middle. They have been waiting for this money long enough. Congress must now work quickly and pass a clean bill that funds our troops, without artificial time lines for withdrawal, without handcuffing our generals on the ground, and without extraneous domestic spending."

PAWNS! What I have been telling you. Also what have I been telling you about is what the American people wanted? Remember I have been telling you that they voted for a "New Direction" in Iraq. We were losing. Nobody wants to lose. They did NOT vote for cut, run, and surrender. But a new direction. That is what they are getting right now. We ARE WINNING . The surge is working. President Bush tells Congress the same thing. However, he takes it a step further. The President puts it this way.

"When you live in Washington, it's easy to get caught up in the complexities of legislative procedure. But for the American people, this is not a complicated debate. When Americans went to the polls last November, they did not vote for politicians to substitute their judgment for the judgment of our commanders on the ground. And they certainly did not vote to make peanut storage projects part of the funding for our troops. The American people voted for change in Iraq, and that is exactly what our new commander in Iraq, General David Petraeus, is working to achieve. And they expect their elected leaders to support our men and women on the front lines, so they have every resource they need to complete their mission.


We owe it to the American people and to our troops and their families to deliver our full support. I will continue working with Republicans and responsible Democrats to do just that. I call on Members of Congress to put partisanship on hold, resolve their differences, and send me a clean bill that gets our troops the funds they need."

THIS is great! He said, "When Americans went to the polls last November, they did not vote for politicians to substitute their judgment for the judgment of our commanders on the ground. And they certainly did not vote to make peanut storage projects part of the funding for our troops." This is true. Regardless of what some in the mass media and the LWL tell you. YOU should know that.

However, this is the statement that speaks VOLUMES of where the President is right know with Congress. It also could signify that the President MAY be looking into options. Read this "We owe it to the American people and to our troops and their familiesto deliver our full support. I will continue working with Republicans andresponsible Democrats to do just that." Did you catch it? He said, "I will continue working with Republicans and responsible Democrats to do just that."

"Responsible democrats?" Now since I signed off yesterday, I have pretty much been away from the news. I’m not sure if they were intelligent enough to pick up on what he just said there. But I’m sure that when someone points this out, they should have a comment on it. What the President just said is,

"If you {the LWL leaders} continue to travel around the world, attempting to create your own foreign policies, which is un-Constitutional, I will not work with you. If you continue to meet with America’s enemies in the time of war, which undermines me as the President, and the current American foreign policy, which is un-Constitutional for you to do, I will not work with you. If you continue to use our troops as pawns, I will not work with you. If you, continue to seek out ways to force surrender, I will not work with you. If you, continue to show the world how ignorant you are, I will not work with you."

I wish he would just actually come out and say it like I just translated it. Most Liberals need things spelled out for them. I wish he would just, make that ANYONE in power, would just call for some investigations into Pelosi’s actions. Into Reid’s actions. If we had an investigation, I could almost guarantee that they have, and continue to do things that would be the VERY DEFINITION of Treason. They should be treated as the Traitors they are. But this is a good first step.

Folks, if you have ANY doubt whatsoever, of what will happen in 08 if an LWL member take over the White House, just LOOK at what we got now. They did not run on anything. The Mass Media reported what they were told to report by Soros and others. The American people were lied to time and time again. There were enough Sheepeople out there to vote in people they could not even name or pick out in a picture. We got what we got now. If, by some dark miracle, they can pull it off again, and take over the White House in 08?


Look at what Hillary said.

Clinton said some of the proposed changes would be made through executive order and others through legislation. She said she'd move quickly as president to implement the changes.

Obama? I do not feel that he is strong enough to stand up to these people. I feel if he was to take office with them allowed to continue, you may very well get the first female President. Her name would be Pelosi.

To put it into the words of a friend of ours here at the OPN, "Clinton thinks she's President already.With her at the helm can the end of the US as we know it be far off.?" Great question. One I do not really care to find out the answer to.

We have a long way to go folks. But the President’s Radio address is a good first step.
Peter



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