The Democrats really need to pick a position and stick to it. They're lurching around here like Frankenstein's monster, not knowing what they're doing. Now Pelosi is saying that they won't block funding to the troops (this is from an interview with Pelosi that will air this morning on Good Morning America) :
There may be a growing battle between Congress and the president over the Iraq War strategy, but new House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said she won't block funding for additional troops.
[...]Sawyer: As we sit here right now, 3,500 troops are moving in. That's the first of the surge. It has begun. Fifty-one percent of the American people say they want Congress to stop the surge. Money is the method at hand to do that.
Are you going to move to cut off funding for troops going into Iraq as part of the surge?
Pelosi: Democrats will never cut off funding for our troops when they are in harm's way.
It is, I think, very difficult for the president to sustain a war of this magnitude without the support of the American people and without the support of the Congress of the United States. That's why Congress will vote to oppose the president's escalation, from the standpoint of policy. We will have our disagreement.
Sawyer: But short of that — questions posed, resolutions passed — short of that, are you acquiescing in the surge if the pocketbook is the only other control mechanism?
Pelosi: The president knows that because the troops are in harm's way, that we won't cut off the resources. That's why he's moving so quickly to put them in harm's way.
But we will hold the president accountable. He has to answer for his war.
I'm glad to see that sanity has prevailed and they won't be playing politics with the lives of the troops.
BTW, both the Revolutionary War and the Civil War did not have the support of the American people and Lincoln was vilified in the press over the war. So, what's new about this? Nothing. Our military doesn't need the support of the people to do their job and neither does the president. Even when the people are dead wrong about a war, the president and military can still prevail in protecting the people. Thank the Lord that we have leaders during these times of crisis who are willing to do their job despite the pressure and the political cost.
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