Pelosi Says No Money For Troops Unless Bush Starts Immediate Withdrawal
And she also wants Congress to take control of combat operations by limiting the troops to a set of missions she approves of.
AP News Alert
Nov 8 12:18 PM US/Eastern
WASHINGTON (AP) - Speaker Nancy Pelosi says the House will vote as early as Friday on legislation that would pay $50 billion for the war in Iraq but require that President Bush start bringing troops home.
The money is about a quarter of the $196 billion requested by Bush. It would finance about four months of combat in Iraq, Pelosi told reporters on Thursday.
“There will be no blank check for the president,” she said at a Capitol Hill news conference.
The bill would set the requirement that troop withdrawals begin immediately.
The measure also sets a goal that combat end by December 2008. After that, troops left behind should be restricted to a narrow sets of missions, namely counterterrorism, training Iraqi security forces and protecting U.S. assets.
Bush rejected a similar measure in May, and Democrats lacked the votes to override the veto.
Pelosi said the bill also would require that the government rely on an Army field manual when conducting interrogations.The field manual makes no mention of waterboarding, a harsh technique that simulates drowning and is believed to have been used by the CIA.
Since taking control of Congress in January, Democrats have struggled to challenge the president on the war. Holding a shaky majority, they lack the votes to overcome procedural hurdles in the Senate or override a presidential veto.
Pelosi’s measure will likely scrape by the House, but become hamstrung in the Senate over Republican objections. Buoyed by recent progress in Iraq, where enemy attacks have declined but political efforts remain in a stalemate, GOP lawmakers are more hopeful than ever that the war is turning a corner. They oppose setting a timetable for troop withdrawals.
Republicans also would likely oppose applying Defense Department interrogation standards government-wide because it would limit the CIA’s use of aggressive techniques against high-value terrorism suspects.
On Thursday, the House and Senate were on track to approve $460 billion in annual military spending, as well as a stopgap funding measure to keep the rest of the government running through mid- December.
Without the $50 billion for combat operations, the Defense Department would have to transfer money from less urgent spending accounts to keep the wars afloat.
Sen. Ted Stevens of Alaska, the top Republican on the Senate Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, predicts the Army would run out of money entirely by January if Congress does not approve some war money.
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When will these moronic assholes learn that this is not the Dallas Cowboys and they are not Jerry Jones!!!!!!!
November 8th, 2007 at 8:50 amThey did their part a couple of years ago and voted to put us into this mess in Iraq, that we are winning (and it is a mess, have you seen pictures of all that rubble?)!!
Nancy does not get to play Jerry Jones now! She may not come down to the sidelines and take the headphones away from the Generals or the Commander-in-Chief!!
Nancy in the immortal words of the Rock from the WWE
“Know your role and shut your mouth!”
Every time that this woman opens up her trap, I get the impression that I am listening to an old woman who never grew up (intellectually or emotionally)past puberty. Some people get older and wiser. Others like this empty suit just get old.
November 8th, 2007 at 8:57 am“look at those eyes,, lifeless.. like a dolls eyes”
November 8th, 2007 at 9:08 amAnd then she comes to bite ya and those eyes roll over white ……
We support our military ???
We support our Troops ??? WTF !!
But were gonna cut you off at the knees and let you bleed to death ,, and than blame the commander in chief for putting you there and abandoning you ….
I HATE THIS LYING TRAITOR BITCH !!!
Leave it to the Democrats to try and recreate Vietnam.
“Hey, we’ve got a great chance to win here!”
November 8th, 2007 at 9:10 am“No more funding. Troops leave now.”
Well this is going to be fun. The Democraps have to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, quick.
As to Peloser, it just shows when you pout a 40 year old light bulb in a 67 year old chassis, it doesn’t effect the brain degeneration that 67 years of liberalism has already wrought.
November 8th, 2007 at 9:11 amStill more ‘We’re winning. Let’s quit.’ from the surrendercrats.
November 8th, 2007 at 9:18 amPelosi must have just got up from her weekly ‘Lewinsky position’ meeting with Soros.
Nancy Pelosi Haiku:
Dark insipid eyes
November 8th, 2007 at 9:30 amStaring blankly at the troops
She wants to despise
Someone needs to dump this witch out a 30-story window
November 8th, 2007 at 9:41 amThey’ll bitch till it’s time for our troops to come home, then they’ll want credit for bringing them home, as if they have the power and moral authority to get things done for the good of the” AMERICAN PEOPLE”. Talk about living in a bubble.
November 8th, 2007 at 10:07 amI don’t condone violence except when absolutely neccessary. I believe we have gotten to (or passed) that point. Can someone place kick that bitch in the neck?
November 8th, 2007 at 10:07 am“There will be no blank check for the president,” she said at a Capitol Hill news conference.”
Just more posturing because there is nothing constructive they can do
November 8th, 2007 at 10:08 amBetter get ‘em home fast Pelosi, the troops are winnin’ and that would screw you dipshits up but good!
November 8th, 2007 at 10:15 amNo, no, hang on here. Just let her and the Democraps try to push this through the Senate again. Even if it makes it, which I doubt, the Commander In Chief will put their feet to the fire and they will fold… having made asses out of themselves again.
Just give them the rope and let them hang themselves once more in the eyes of public opinion. The fact is they don’t have the balls to fully cut the funding for Iraq. It would be political suicide.
November 8th, 2007 at 10:16 amI love it.. Give them a rope and they find a way to hang themselves. Things are going well in iraq and they pull more of this crap.
Naked incompetence. So delightful.
November 8th, 2007 at 10:24 amCan we talk the Homeland Security Dept to protect America and leave the country of Caliweirdos on its own?
November 8th, 2007 at 10:44 amI’m sorry, I’m sorry, it would give the darlings from the religion of the sword; camps to train from and sanctuaries to hide in and yes recruits, lots of recruits for the homicidal brigades.
Wolfpack
November 8th, 2007 at 10:51 amRight now the counter insurgency in “Caliweirdos” is working, lets not cut and run
in the meantime they are such a joke, it is surreal at times
love the haiku Dbo
November 8th, 2007 at 10:54 amWho the fuck does she think she is? Someone needs to get laid.
November 8th, 2007 at 10:59 amdbo great poetry.
November 8th, 2007 at 11:16 amHmm, I’m guessing the President will authorize some midnight F-35 sound barrior tests soon. I think Pelosi’s house might be close to those test. Gotta keep our training up.
November 8th, 2007 at 11:51 amDoes this mean that Nancy hates her country so much that
November 8th, 2007 at 11:53 amshe will do anything to make sure that America loses this
war on terror?
Does this mean that Nancy and her buddy Harry Reid are going
to make this President sweat because the Democrat Party
cannot afford to have this Administration to chalk up another one in the ‘WIN’ COLUMN?
Why do you hate America, America?
November 8th, 2007 at 11:54 amThe newly elected “conservative” Dems won’t go for this, it would be electoral suicide for them, and since they value electoral success above all other things, it ain’t happening.
November 8th, 2007 at 12:01 pmThe War coming to an end, Baghdad is 80% pacified, Al Qaeda is on the run everywhere (those that still can run) and this dipshit thinks it’s 2004.
Check this link:
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/mark-finkelstein/2007/11/08/nyt-relegates-rout-aqi-baghdad-a19
November 8th, 2007 at 12:22 pm“The newly elected “conservative” Dems won’t go for this”
yes they will, they have not contested her ‘leadership’ yet
they lied during the campaign
November 8th, 2007 at 12:46 pmPelosi and Reid are to America and our Military what child molesters are to children.
They talk a good game but then shove it up the rear of America and the Military because they hate the Father.
They and their staffs should be treated as such.
November 8th, 2007 at 12:59 pm.
Pelosi!!! Getting laid!!!
Sorry getting laid is “NOT” an option. 
November 8th, 2007 at 1:09 pmAnother Haiku, though suck it does
Beady eyes
November 8th, 2007 at 1:47 pmSpeaker of effluvium
Lady Skelator
Arrest that bitch.
November 8th, 2007 at 2:02 pmIf there’s a bag of shit anywhere the Dims will kick it into the fan. What a group of abandoned minds.
November 8th, 2007 at 2:52 pmher daddy should have withdrawn
November 8th, 2007 at 3:31 pmJust wondering if old Nancy’s approval numbers have reached single digits yet to match that collective San Fran IQ she represents?
Congratulations Congresswoman Pelosi…
November 8th, 2007 at 4:16 pmAll I can say is get prepared folks…these shitpoles could very well increase in power the next Gen. elec. cycle. It is a VERY F–k’in scary possibility.
November 8th, 2007 at 7:34 pm“It is a VERY F–k’in scary possibility.”
Yes it is but I do not believe it will happen. They really are dumbasses and are extremely condescending to the proletariat who will wake up next year and see reality.
November 8th, 2007 at 7:57 pmPelosi and this congress are the Titanic.
They need to get made asses out of themselves and kicked to the curb every month.
I don’t see the benefit of this for them
They seriously look incompetent to lead (we all know this) but they have not figured it out and keep going back for another slapdown.
I really think this is G*d’s hand showing what really is inside of them.
It is ugly ugly ugly.
November 8th, 2007 at 8:05 pmI’m convinced that the democrat takeover was the best thing that could have happened! Kind of a give them enough rope in action. The American people are not stupid and do not want to grab defeat from the jaws of victory just to please code stink or bowl movement.org. Keep up the great work Ms.Blowme
November 8th, 2007 at 8:27 pmGeez … The picture just makes me think …
“Just remember, I have a whole bag of “Sshhh” with your name on it”
Dr. Evil
November 8th, 2007 at 9:44 pmCNN’s also trying to say that h of Americans want out of Iraq and that p don’t want military intervention in Iran. That’s weird, cause in a recent AP poll E actually favor a military strike in Iran, and about 47 oppose or whatever. So yeah, I seriously doubt CNN this time. I really hate it when people are trying to screw things up just when things are getting better.
November 8th, 2007 at 11:26 pmThe Democrats are crazy crazy people- I can’t believe they’re just fine with innocent Iraqis dying. But when insurgents get shot at, they go insane with fury.
Her talk is as old as she is!
She thinks she was elected to bring the troops home. these votes have proven only keep the left wing kooks from jumping the dem ship completely. She wants them to think there is hope.
the only hope for america is that she gets killed by an islamic terrorist that she says doesnt exist!
November 8th, 2007 at 11:54 pm