President Bush Urges Congress To Pass Iraq War Funding Bill - With Video
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WASHINGTON — President Bush, seeking to better his negotiating position ahead of votes on a huge Iraq war-funding bill, said Saturday that U.S. troops “deserve better” than the treatment they are getting from the Democratic-led Congress.
“This is an opportunity for Congress to give our men and women in uniform the tools they need to protect us, and Congress should approve these vital funds immediately,” Bush said in his weekly radio address. “Congress has had this funding request for more than a year, and there is no reason for further delay.”
But the dispute over the hotly contested bill, and the delay in getting it passed, is as much as anything due to demands from Bush that Democrats find unacceptable.
The bill contains unrelated domestic spending beyond Bush’s $178 billion war funding request and the president has threatened a veto if it doesn’t come out. Meanwhile, the White House wants to add money to the measure to let troops transfer ramped up GI Bill education benefits to their spouses or children.
Bush said that any further delay in passage will have dire consequences, such as temporary layoffs of civilian employees next month and no more paychecks for troops after July.
“Our men and women in uniform and their families deserve better than this,” the president said. “They deserve the full support of Congress. I often hear members of Congress say they oppose the war but still support the troops. Now they have a chance to prove it.”
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These bastards better pass the bill because if our troops start fighting for free they should get their money right out of congress’ paycheck. while congress sits on their collective fat asses in their nice comfy chairs and do absolutely nothing for those who elected them, our troops are over there fighting hard and takin’ it AQ, Iran, the taliban and anyone else causing trouble in Iraq and Afghanistan
June 7th, 2008 at 8:08 amAgreed but this is a congress you can’t trust. I seem to remember a refund every taxpayer in the US was supposed to get to help stimulate the economy. I am grateful for not having to hold my breath to get that one.
Where have all the patriots in the Democratic party gone and why are they so bent on helping our country’s enemies. Thw Democratic congress really sucks.
June 7th, 2008 at 9:17 amI think weve allready won these wars, we took over Iraq, killed Saddam and his kids, destoyed the Baath party, and set up free elections, and never even found WMD’s. I think its time to bring home the main force, and send in a much smaller and more specialized force to deal with the insurgents, (maybe more bounties and mercinaries) if we would have paid 10,000.00 a head for confirmed kills we would be approching 5,000,000 terrorists dead now. As far as Afghanistan goes we did exactly what we promised, (if you aid terrorists we will take over your country). What ever happened to Bin Laden anyway. This is not WWII we dont need this size force there indefinitly.
June 10th, 2008 at 11:14 am