Insults fly over Iraq compromise

Source: Reuters



Insults fly over Iraq compromise

By Richard Cowan 43 minutes ago

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Harsh words flew on Tuesday among
President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and Democrats on funding the Iraq war as Congress inched toward a possible compromise that drops timetables for withdrawing U.S. troops.



........House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (news, bio, voting record) of California, asked about Bush's claim Democrats were playing politics with the war, shot back, "I heard him say that and I thought it was beneath the dignity." Pelosi, who has always opposed the Iraq war added, "This is an ethical issue. This isn't a political issue."

The insults then moved to the Senate side of the Capitol, where a visiting Vice President Dick Cheney, who nearly always avoids talking to reporters on Capitol Hill, accused Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (news, bio, voting record) of "defeatism" on the war.

Reid, a Nevada Democrat, responded, "I'm not going to get into a name-calling match with somebody that has 9 percent approval ratings." Then he called Cheney "the administration's chief attack dog."

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070424/ts_nm/iraq_usa_funding_dc;_ylt=Aq1saE4Y5zaGFe0IyvfLikTMWM0F

What is this compromise? Come on Dem's, stand up for what you believe in! NO BACKING DOWN!

Dapper

They have no real info or facts.

They just want to keep saying it over and over and over again.

"as Congress inched toward a possible compromise that drops timetables for withdrawing U.S. troops."

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Source: nytimes



April 25, 2007

Bush and Cheney Chide Democrats on Iraq Deadline

By CARL HULSE and JEFF ZELENY

WASHINGTON, April 24 — President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney aggressively challenged the motives of Congressional Democrats on Tuesday, as the House and Senate prepared to consider a war spending bill that would order troops to be withdrawn from Iraq beginning later this year.
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“Instead of fashioning a bill I could sign, the Democratic leaders chose to further delay funding our troops, and they chose to make a political statement,” Mr. Bush said Tuesday morning before leaving for New York. “That’s their right. But it is wrong for our troops and it’s wrong for our country.”

Mr. Cheney was even tougher as he spoke to reporters after a private weekly lunch for Republican senators. He lashed out at Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, the Democratic leader, who delivered stinging comments of his own on Monday, portraying Mr. Bush as being in denial about the war and saying Mr. Cheney had tarnished his own office.

“What’s most troubling about Senator Reid’s comments yesterday is his defeatism,” said Mr. Cheney. “And the timetable legislation that he is now pursuing would guarantee defeat. Maybe it is a political calculation.”

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/25/washington/25cong.html?ref=world&pagewanted=print

We weren't attacked by Iraq. We're not giving up and crying Uncle. We're re-deploying and trying political, economic, and other strategies that have a much better chance of success than supplying an endless parade of cannon fodder to a bloodbath created by an illegal invasion.