Republican Death Trap: Bush Wants Iraq Escalation Well into 2008

Some of these articles are really challenging to snip down; this would be one of them.

http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/7377

Republican Death Trap: Bush Wants Iraq Escalation Well into 2008
by Brent Budowsky | May 10 2007

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Enough. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) can change American history by standing hard for a 60-90 funding for the war, requiring a new vote by August and leading a landmark new policy supporting troops and vets.

Let me assert categorically that if allowed to testify truthfully, Secretary Gates, Gen. Pace and Gen. Petraeus would view this policy shift as an outstanding opening for the first genuine bipartisan policy in the history of this war.

Forcing a new vote creates hard pressure on an Iraqi government that every commander believes is disastrously uncommitted to political solutions.

Democrats have an extraordinary opportunity to change the calculus of national security politics for a generation by making a historic stand that ties any continued Iraq funding to historic new support for troops, and honorable outreach for genuine bipartisanship for the broader policy.


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Remember: When the Speaker made a bold move to Syria she was decried by a president who said he would never do this, and then sent Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to meet with Syrians. The Speaker was right, the policy changed, and it can happen again.

Democrats can become the party of highest support for troops and military families and lift the spirit of Americans with the first rays of hope and optimism. We can offer the beginning of the end of what historians will condemn as dark days of partisan bitterness and disastrous policy.

If Democrats lead, the public will applaud us, and many Republicans will ultimately join us.

My preference is for sending back the same Bill as before, but this course will do, particularly as the ferret in charge has declared he will veto it anyway.

The key is drawing new vetoes....

"LET'S GO GET THOSE BUSH BASTARDS!"