Desperately Seeking Surrender
This reminds me of those stories that Iraqi soldiers were not allowed to have white underwear, or any other surrenderabilia, on pain of summary execution. Politico:
Democratic leaders are loath to acknowledge they’ve backed off, but lawmakers from both sides of the aisle, as well as congressional aides, say Democrats are trying to find a way to provide continued troop funding while searching for some compromises that show they’re still intent on challenging the president on the war.
The possible conditions for troop funding include anti-torture rules and benchmarks for Iraqi political reconciliation, language sure to upset an impatient Democratic anti-war base that wants immediate troop withdrawals.
According to one senior Democratic lawmaker, there’s a growing discomfort among pro-defense Democrats about linking a $50 billion Iraq measure to troop withdrawal.
“We have to come off this lack of funding for the military operations,” the lawmaker said. “We have to continue the funding. We don’t want to look like we’re against troop funding. … We should separate the funding discussion from the rest of the war.”
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Still, aides to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) insisted on Wednesday that the Senate would vote on a troop funding bill that contains the same withdrawal language that passed the House last month.
In the House, Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (D-Md.) seemed flustered Wednesday when pressed about whether Democrats would provide Iraq money with no strings attached.
“There’s no doubt the troops will be funded,” Hoyer told reporters. “We believe that technically, the troops are funded right now.”
But Hoyer wasn’t ready to declare that troop withdrawal language would be taken out. “That’s not a given,” he said.
Tanks in Baghdad? There are no tanks in Baghdad. Where are these tanks in Baghdad?
I don’t know about you, but if they’re going to give up on surrender, I wish they’d get on with it.
Four years on, Baghdad Bob may be right. Gateway with a report on how the hated infidel invaders are fleeing Baghdad.
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 8:17 am Comments (5) on Thursday, December 6, 2007
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December 6th, 2007 at 9:49 am
Why the analogy with underwear, Jules? The Dhimmicrats don’t use underwear, they use diapers.
December 6th, 2007 at 11:20 am
What a bunch of weasels. The main result I want to see is a whole lot of Dhimmicrat dinosaurs voted out of office in the next cycle.
December 6th, 2007 at 1:45 pm
They are playing politics with funding for troops in the middle of a theater of war–where they were sent into harm’s way on legal orders. There is no way to whitewash this fact. I hope they enjoy sitting down to dinner in their nice, safe, warm homes now decorated for the season. May the bastards choke.
December 6th, 2007 at 2:41 pm
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