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Pelosi Pushing to Fund MORE Occupation of Iraq

Submitted by davidswanson on Wed, 2008-04-23 21:33.

House Leadership Set to Pass Biggest War Spending Bill Yet!

While the House leadership was sharply critical of recent reports by General Petraeus and Ambassador Crocker, they now appear ready to give President Bush an additional $172 Billion in war funding.

Here’s what we know about what they plan to bring up for a vote:

1) On top of the $102 Billion requested by the Bush administration, the Democratic Party leadership is proposing to offer an unsolicited additional $70 Billion to cover the first quarter war funding for FY2009. In other words, this will be a whopping $172 Billion!

2) This funding will cover the rest of this fiscal year, which runs to Sept. 30th, and go well into the next fiscal and calendar years. This means this would be the last supplemental funds voted on before the November elections. If passed, this funding will also carry over into the next presidency and the new Congress.

3) There is speculation that the House version of the funding bill will be "clean" and not have any other items attached to it. It this happens there would be a straight up-or-down vote before it moves to the Senate where additional spending is likely to be added.

4) According to the Democratic leadership, this unconscionable allocation of $172 Billion is an attempt to avoid a presidential veto. However, President Bush promises to veto any war funding bill that exceeds $108 billion dollars or includes a timetable for withdrawal.

It appears that the decision to vote on such a massive allocation of new funds now is based on the desire to remove the funding issue from the electoral calendar. This is exactly what the antiwar movement does not want! As the country heads into the elections, we believe that every Senator and Representative should stand up and be counted on the question of this war and how they intend to stop it.

What the House leadership is doing is nothing short of outrageous! Their proposed funding will ensure the Bush administration’s ability to continue to execute the war and occupation in Iraq without any Congressional challenge: not even a debate.

Before it’s too late, we urge you to place two critical phone calls:

* Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi at 202-225-0100
* Chair of the House Appropriations Defense Subcommittee John Murtha at 202-225-2847

Tell them another blank check of $172 Billion for this war is totally unacceptable. The Congress needs to act now to bring the troops home! Remind them that the people of this country – the voters of this country - want the U.S. military occupation of Iraq to end!

And be sure to let your own Congressional Representative know that you expect them to stand up to the White House and to the House leadership on the war funding and refuse to support the present policies.

John Bruhns
Legislative Action Coordinator
UFPJ

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Funding for War when every American is facing financial death???

Submitted by Alcyone on Thu, 2008-04-24 04:03.

When we call these traitors we need to state we
will do everything in our power to see they
fall from power. They have absolutely no care
for ot interest in this country or its people.
Let the money come out of their wages in Congress
so they face having to walk to work, having no
health care, having their homes foreclosed to
be forced to live in the streets; having their
children and grandchildren sent to thr war front
to face brain injury and excessive mental
instibility. Tell them we wish them exactly
the life styles they are bringing to others
with their heartlessness and excessive power
needs. What they do will return to them --just as
the torture they by proxy allow will become their
own personal experience of being tortured.

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Yes, they are the most vile

Submitted by apparition on Thu, 2008-04-24 23:20.

Yes, they are the most vile of traitors. They are paid over $150,000/yr by us and bribed over $500,000/yr by Special Zionist Interests (AIPAC) that protects war criminals from accountability and fleece obscene profits from genocidal mass murder. So, who do you think their "daddy" is?

US government has given the State of Israel over 6 TRILLION dollars in the past sixty years, they will give them over 3 BILLION more this year, they knowingly allow them to spy on Americans and they turn a blind eye to Israel's long list of hideous criminal activities, including 9/11. And what have we seen in return?

When any "government" lies as much as this one does, it is no longer legitimate and no one is obligated to it.

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Keep The Vote In Mind

Submitted by Robert Noval on Thu, 2008-04-24 06:29.

Regardless of when a war-funding bill is passed, how a given congressmember of either house voted must be kept as a benchmark for their position in the November election.

"It appears that the decision to vote on such a massive allocation of new funds now is based on the desire to remove the funding issue from the electoral calendar."

Not if we make it a point to keep it on...

---The Bikemessenger

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