Bush defunds the troops
It’s a pretty stunning report card of the costs and losses between the toppling of Saddam and today.
And Bush is speaking as I write this, trying to defend his veto.
He just said he vetoed it moments ago. So Bush eliminated the funding of the war.
Had he approved it, with the money in it committed, the 4 year Iraq war would virtually tie the cost - adjusted for inflation - of the 13 year Vietnam War. Only the second world war was more expensive than that.
And only Vietnam and the Revolutionary War have lasted longer than this one.
Wth no sign of improvement. With no political progress from the Iraq government. With that government planning to recess for 2 months.
Bush killed the war funding. Let it stay dead. It’s just about the only casualty I can accept but like all the others, Bush refuses to take responsibility, even though it was his pen that killed it.
May 1st, 2007 at 7:13 pm
There’s the headline.
May 1st, 2007 at 8:05 pm
This is just sour grapes. The US military, under the leadership of President Bush, did win a stunningly quick and virtually bloodless victory in Iraq in spring of 2003. President Bush was entitled to his moment of glory and to honor the valor and skill of our brave fighting men and women, which he did most eloquently. To keep carping about this years later, with the benefit of 20/20 hindsight, is in very poor taste to say the least. More importantly it denigrates our troops and encourages our enemies. If the Democrats think these cheap theatrics are a winning political strategy, then they are plain nuts. Can you say boomerang?
May 1st, 2007 at 8:29 pm
Sour grapes, my ass. He started a war on trumped up bullshit. The troops deserve any credit, not the ANG washout Bush. The full impact has caused the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people, while Bush and Cheney’s cronies turned a profit off the corpses.
But a badly weakened Iraqi army, half the size of the one his daddy fought, was easy pickings. Everyone knew that going in. That was the point, after all, an easy target to set an example for other enemies.
And the longterm impact is he created more enemies and created illwill among friendlies, all over the globe.
Sour grapes? Remember your words when the next wave of terror attacks comes. Bush deserves solitary imprisonment as a war criminal. Or at least a presidential library…. in Baghdad.
May 2nd, 2007 at 8:37 am
Stop calling it a war, and if you do, call it Bush’s war, or an occupation.