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A Great Surrendory

Surrender is as surrender does.  

George Bush won.

Reuters:

WASHINGTON - President George W. Bush won a battle over nearly $100 billion to fund the Iraq war as Democratic leaders in Congress on Tuesday abandoned efforts to withdraw troops for now but pledged to try again in July.

They flinched.

AP:  

WASHINGTON - Flinching in the face of a veto threat, Democratic congressional leaders neared agreement with Bush administration Tuesday on legislation to pay for the Iraq war without a troop withdrawal timeline.

Well, it wasn’t quite that bad. What they actually did was drop their insistence, to clear the way.

LA Times:

WASHINGTON — Congressional Democratic leaders on Tuesday dropped their insistence that the Iraq war-spending bill include a timeline for U.S. troop withdrawal, clearing the way to end a lengthy standoff with President Bush.

There was some giving up and abandonment, a handing of victory to Bush in the wake of monthslong roilment.

Washington Post:

Democrats gave up their demand for troop-withdrawal deadlines in an Iraq war spending package yesterday, abandoning their top goal of bringing U.S. troops home and handing President Bush a victory in a debate that has roiled Congress for months.

None of which should be confused with surrender. Really, it was more of a relenting.

NYT:

WASHINGTON, May 22 — Congressional Democrats relented Tuesday on their insistence that a war spending measure set a date for withdrawing American combat troops from Iraq. Instead, they moved toward a deal with President Bush that would impose new conditions on the Iraqi government.

Topics: Iraq, pols

  Posted by Jules Crittenden at 11:09 pm on Tuesday, May 22, 2007

4 Responses to “A Great Surrendory”

1. davidp Says:
   May 23rd, 2007 at 1:22 am

   Nice to see the surrenderists getting to surrender without causing mass deaths.

2. jay k. Says:
   May 23rd, 2007 at 9:44 am

   yup…george owns it.

3. SFBert Says:
   May 23rd, 2007 at 2:18 pm

   Great news:
   “Only” 9 American soldiers were killed in Iraq today.

   Isn’t it time we toss this one-and-a-half party (Republican and Republican-Lite) system out of America?

   I propose we change the American flag colors to yellow, since all our politicians are cowards.

4. jay k. Says:
   May 23rd, 2007 at 3:45 pm

   sfbert…
   there are no republicans anymore.

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