So Predictable It’s Sad

Hey folks,

Happy Saturday to you. New OPNTalk “Behind the OPN Screen” coming up soon, sometime this weekend. But I had to comment on this, this morning You know, all this talk about the “Bush Report” coming out next week, complete with some in the MMD even saying the White House is writing it. They are scared to death. Idiots. The White House is not. It is NOT Bush’s report. It is being written by the top General in Iraq. It could be funny to watch if this report is not as rosy as the think.

Can you imagine if the report shows that things are not as good as all the news coming out? What are they going to say? Bush reports BAD news? No. They will simply change their story again. They will say “See, even the top General in Iraq is saying things are not going as well as the President indicated. He needs to listen to his Generals. He needs to stop lying about Iraq.” But then I, and many like me, will remind you that, according to them in the last couple of days, it was BUSH that wrote the report. Right? Anyway.

Get this from Reuters No more Iraq funds without limits: key Democrat By Susan Cornwell Fri Sep 7, 3:41 PM ET

The No. 2 Democrat in the U.S. Senate said on Friday he could no longer vote for funding the war in Iraq unless restrictions were attached that would begin winding down American involvement there.

Who cares?

"This Congress can't give President (George W.) Bush another blank check for Iraq," said Assistant Majority Leader Dick Durbin, who has always opposed the war but until now voted to fund it.

Blah, blah, blah.

"I can't support an open-ended appropriation which allows this president to continue this failed policy," he said in a speech at the left-leaning Center for National Policy.

It’s not a failed policy. It is WORKING. That is what scares the hell out of the LWL. They cannot and will not survive a victory in Iraq. A victory in Iraq, IS their defeat.

Durbin, from Illinois, said he and Democratic Sen. Russ Feingold of Wisconsin were working on limits that could be attached to the next war funding bill, such as limiting troops to conducting counterterrorism operations and training Iraqi security forces.

"I believe Congress should strictly tie future funding for the war in Iraq to a new role for our troops there," he said.

They STILL want to micro manage this war. He wants to cut those conducting counter-terrorism. That’s BRILLIANT in a time of war. Just Brilliant.

Congress this fall takes up legislation on Pentagon policy and spending, in addition to a separate war funding bill.

The White House is expected to ask for some $200 billion for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan for the fiscal year that starts on October 1. Durbin said he thought the Senate would take up the war funding bill by early October.

Since September 2001, Congress has provided $602 billion for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, with about 70 percent of that going to Iraq. The most recent funding bill, approved by Congress in May, took months to pass. Bush vetoed the first version after Democrats attached a withdrawal timeline.

Although he was one of 23 senators who voted against the use of force in Iraq in 2002, Durbin said he was increasingly troubled by his votes to pay for military operations there.

"Now I just realized I can't do this. It's perpetuating a policy that is taking more American lives. We have to wind this war down," Durbin said, adding he would not use his leadership post to demand other Democrats follow his lead.

We will "wind it down" when the President says so. It doesn’t matter folks. He doesn’t matter. If they try to add a bunch of junk to the next spending bill, the President will veto that one too. They have to decide if they want to outright OWN defeat, which they already do, they need to make that hard decision, and just cut all funding. They will NOT do this, because they cannot have THEM responsible for losing. They want to blame Bush.

This will go back and forth, and in the end, they will pass more spending. You know, after all the show. {Sigh} They are so predictable it’s sad. They have made themselves nothing more than a joke. Pawns used by the LWL. They really think they matter.

Truth is, they are SCARED to death of this report next week. They, with the help of the Liberal Mainstream media, have already denounced the report. So they cannot now take it seriously, no matter WHAT it says. That is scaring them.
Peter