Bush already threatening to veto the NEXT Iraq war spending bill because it might have "Benchmarks" for progress in Iraq
posted by
Wally
7:52 AM
Why does Bush hate progress?
He hasn't even vetoed the first Iraq occupation emergency spending bill that the Dems will be handing to him tomorrow - the 4th anniversary of "Mission Accomplished Day" - but Bush is already threatening to veto the next one too. He refuses to accept any qualifications on the money, or any oversight whatsoever - just a completely blank check to do whatever the hell he wants. He is threatening to veto the next bill if it even has "benchmarks" that have to be met showing progress in Iraq in order to spend the money. President George W. Bush will not sign any war spending bill that penalizes Iraq's government for failing to make progress, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Sunday, a fresh warning to the U.S. Congress about challenging him.
"To begin now to tie our own hands - and to say 'We must do this if they don't do that' - doesn't allow us the flexibility and creativity that we need to move this forward," Rice said. Then she went on to say, apparently oblivious to the contradiction inherent in her statements: "The United States is paying in blood and treasures," Rice acknowledged. "The Iraqi leadership is being told, and I think they understand, that the kind of Iraq that there is going to be is up to them. We can't give them a united Iraq." That's precisely why the Dems are insisting on stipulations for getting the money - to make damn sure they know that it "is up to them" and so we can stop "paying in blood and treasures." To make sure that the money - LOTS of money - is getting results and making progress, and not just being pissed away. "The benchmarks - the Iraqis agreed to it, the president agreed it," said Democratic Rep. John Murtha, who heads a House subcommittee that controls defense spending. "We're saying to them, 'Well, let's put some teeth into the benchmarks.'" But Bush doesn't want teeth in it. He doesn't believe in accountability or responsibility or oversight. He just wants to be left alone to play with his toys, and when he breaks them, he wants someone else to pay for new ones. In this case, that payment is in the form of American tax dollars, and the blood of American and Iraqi soldiers and Iraqi civilians.
Let him keep vetoeing the war spending bills. Maybe our soldiers can come back home when the money runs out.
Paying For Results
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