Mission Accomplished Day – 4 years on

Bush to veto Iraq bill, make statement on Tuesday – Yahoo! News

President George W., Bush plans on Tuesday to veto a war spending bill that imposes timelines
for a U.S. troop withdrawal from Iraq, and will then explain his action in a statement at the White House, an administration official said.

Explain his actions? Easy. He doesn’t want to leave Iraq. It’s just too important to keep stealing their oil. Our troops deaths aren’t important enough to worry his beautiful mind with – their blood is only good enough for his veto stamp. It’s not important to him that we actually let the Iraqis rule their own country – that’s why the plan is to keep permanent military bases there. Halliburton is making billions, just as planned. Who cares what the American people think? No one suffers more than George and Laura.

Mission Accomplished.

Ah. Here we are:

“It makes no sense to tell the enemy when you plan to start withdrawing,” Mr. Bush said from the White House.

One wonders who “the enemy” is. The Democrats? The American people? The troops?

Mr. Bush, “the terrorists” don’t care when we withdraw – they’re perfectly happy that we’re spending our fortune and lives in Iraq. The ones who care when we withdraw are the ones who pay your salary – us, the American people.

4 years on, we have no answer to that question.

The President vetoed our troops and the American people. His stubborn commitment to a failed strategy in Iraq is incomprehensible. He committed our great military to a failed strategy in violation of basic principles of war. His failure to mobilize the nation to defeat world wide Islamic extremism is tragic. We deserve more from our commander-in-chief and his administration.
—Maj. Gen. John Batiste, USA, Ret.

This administration and the previously Republican controlled legislature have been the most caustic agents against America’s Armed Forces in memory. Less than a year ago, the Republicans imposed great hardship on the Army and Marine Corps by their failure to pass a necessary funding language. This time, the President of the United States is holding our Soldiers hostage to his ego. More than ever apparent, only the Army and the Marine Corps are at war – alone, without their President’s support.
–Maj. Gen. Paul Eaton, USA, Ret.

The president wants a blank check. The Congress is not going to give it to him. The president said, in his comments, he did not believe in timelines, and he spoke out very forcefully against them. Yet in 1999, on June 5th, then-Governor Bush said, about President Clinton, “I think it’s important for the president to lay out a timetable as to how long they will be involved and when they would be withdrawn.” Despite his past statements, President Bush refuses to apply the same standard to his own activities. Standards — that’s the issue.

If the president thinks that what is happening on the ground in Iraq now is progress, as he said in his comments tonight, then it’s clear to see why we have a disagreement on policy with him. I agree with Leader Reid. We look forward to working with the president to find common ground, but there is great distance between us right now. — Nancy Pelosi

You can veto the bill, but you can’t veto the truth.

Update:

By the way, in the report it said, it is — the government may have to put in more troops to be able to get to that position. And that’s what we do. We put in more troops to get to a position where we can be in some other place. The question is, who ought to make that decision? The Congress or the commanders? And as you know, my position is clear — I’m the commander guy. — George W. Bush

OK “Commander Guy”, get your ass over in Iraq already – and please – don’t come back until you “win”.

Pelosi’s response:

Today, the President faces consequences of his own making. This is the seventh supplemental for the war in Iraq. Certainly, somebody was planning something at the White House and could have put, over the years, the funding necessary for this war into the budget. Instead the President did not do that. I don’t know why, maybe they don’t want the American people to see the real cost of this war in dollars. Certainly, we know the price that we have paid more seriously, in lives, in health, in reputation, in the readiness of our military and in probably two trillion dollars now for this war. — Nancy Pelosi