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cyberdude611 -> RE: House/Senate Funding Bill really screws Bush. (4/25/2007 1:04:55 PM)
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ORIGINAL: caitlyn
General Response ...
I think President Bush should sign the bill.
At first, I somewhat agreed with the idea that setting a firm timetable was a disaster waiting to happen. I didn't quite go as far as the "date we will surrender" thinking ... but I could see that point, from where I was.
The more I think about it, the more the deadline is starting to make sense ... mind you, I said starting.
It tells our troops and our public, that there is a real end-game in place.
If our opposition over there really wants us gone, you would think they would be peaceful, until the time comes. If they continue towards violence (my guess would be that violence would escallate significantly), we would know what the real agenda is, and what to expect when we do actually leave.
This being the case, if other Arab nations really want the Iranians to have control over Iran ... they will sit and do nothing. If they don't want that, which I would suspect to be the case, they would work towards a solution.
Just discussion points. Flame away if you must. After the deaths in my house over the past week, flames really mean nothing.
I wonder what would happen in 1942 if Congress passed a war resolution that stated that the war must end within a year and only X amount of money can be spent.
We would be speaking German or Japanese.
Anyone that thinks you can put a timetable on a war is a freaking idiot. This isn't football or some kind of game with a clock counting down. This is war. There is no clock. You can't predict anything. You can plan, you can make strategy. But you cannot say that we have to have victory by such-and-such time. War does not work that way because the battlefield and the situations change each and every day.
The Constitution states that the President of the United States (no matter how stupid he may be) is the commander-in-chief of the United States armed forces. NOT THE CONGRESS! Congress declares war and that's it. They don't run the war. They don't create the strategy. If the Congress believes that the President has failed, they can opt to impeach him and throw him out of office.
This stuff about de-funding the war may not work, and it may not even be constitutional. It has never been done before. Every other time the US has been involved in war, the congress was 100% behind the president....even during Vietnam. It wasn't congress that pulled the troops out...Nixon pulled them out.
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