Would the budget for the next year include higher troop levels that Bush is talking about?

You’re right, they would like to run the Executive Branch but they don’ t have the authority.

BDS is alive and thriving.

Congress is now trying to take over the executive branch? They seem to be drunk with power or drunk with something. Since when did congress have anything to say about the military. All they can do is cut off the funding and I don’t think they have enough votes for that. They have nothing to say about troop levels and Bush does not have to have congressional approval for that. This is all red meat thrown to their base. Oh, they would like for us to fail in Iraq, goodness knows they have worked hard enough for it. And never forget the dems meeting with the terrorists and the senators going to Syria. Of course, Rickerfeller would be right at home with this treasonous activity. After all didn’t Zawiri send them instructions on how to do so.

Drudge is reporting (via Bloomberg):

Senate Majority Whip Richard Durbin of Illinois, the No. 2 Senate Democrat, said Democrats are considering options to limit the U.S. involvement, including setting a cap on U.S. troop levels and requiring Bush to obtain congressional approval to exceed it.

The letter from Pelosi and Reid comes as Bush prepares to lay out a plan next week for new U.S. steps in Iraq and signals Democrats’ efforts to thwart any troop increase or exact a political price if Bush orders one.

“There will be the eyes of the American people on everything the president does in Iraq, for a change,’’ Reid told reporters today. “The people of this country no longer support this war in Iraq.’’

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20670001&refer=home&sid=ahLkCENMNN2w

Are Durbin and Reid kidding? Doubt it…but, they only have a one vote majority. Still it breathtaking to see them try this.

Carol

Please don’t take it that I think Dems have good intentions. I was thinking along the lines that “they think they have good intentions” but the fact that no good would come of them would be proof that they weren’t. No one thinks, more than I do, that the Dems only have bad intentions.

Yes Barbara, I think they are terminally infected with BDS.

Reading all the news lately about Jamel Hassein and AP, maybe some truths will start to be printed about the real situation and then everyone, except the Dems, would realize it’s not hopeless and would actually start to be for the USA to win.

Please don’t attribute any good characteristics to Dems because of me. They have none.

I don’t think the dems have good intentions. I think BDS is so bad among these people that they don’t want Bush to take any credit for solving the ME controversary. They do not want him to go down in history as the president who accomplished this great goal and brought peace to the world.

They are willfully ignoring the whole terrorism problem and saying it is about strawmen who are not there. They say there is no way to bring peace to this region. Their whole mindset is if Bubba couldn’t do it, then Bush surely cannot. And if be some fluke he was successful they want to spin it to be a loss not a win.

This is why the dems and especially the media are spinning the news the way they are. The hatred is so rampant it blinds them to anything else. We have seen in the news any accomplishments that Bush has done are downplayed or not played at all but most of them derided as nothing much.

FE, unfortunately the Dems’ idea of good intentions and your and my idea of good intentions are two completely different animals. It’s gonna be an interesting next two years.

Roonent, New Year’s house cleaning must be contageous. Another blog I frequent is going through the same process right now. I think The Anchoress, in her opening header says it best:

I ask only that you be civil, because I do believe that decent people can disagree and still be decent people.

Thank you for kicking Ken to the curb and calling out the other unruly posters that come here to harass your loyal faithful. Thank you. You have many gracious and informed posters whom care about furthering your topics and informing all of us on the facts and not propaganda.

I for one really appreciate the 2007 AJ that is working hard to keep the posts free of these disruptive types. Once again, many thanks.

To the regular loyal posters here, thank you too for keeping me enlightened and up to date on the facts of AJ’s posts. AJ, Mac at Macsmind and Curt of Flopping Aces are the three best blogs on the net by far. You three rock and I wish you all much sucess.

Reminds me of one of my departed mother’s favorite sayings:
“The road to hell is paved with good intentions”

There’s no way to say it better, the dems may have good intentions, but it’s not going to serve anyone well.

anyhow after we won in Vietnam, forcing the North to sign the peace agreement and withdrew our troops, the north resumed the fight and the Dems threw in the towel(ran up the white flag), resulting in a loss by the South Vietnamese. The only positive from the Vietnam war was that the Soviet Union spent themselves into oblivion and no longer exist.
Now that most of Iraq is living peacefully and the ex dictator is pushing up daisies, the Dems are urgently seeking a way to snatch defeat from the jaws of ultimate victory. The only way we lose is if we let the Dems get their white flags shipped over there. (they’ve already bought and packaged them, just waiting for a shipment date)

I may be rare, but I think things are going about as well as can be expected. If we end up with a stable democratic government in Iraq, it will constitute one of the greatest achievements in history of warfare. It will almost certainly be the most humane war ever fought, with an end result among the most noble ever achieved. Look at the big picture. Look at the “atrocities” the U.S. has committed: Some guys stacked up nude at Abu Ghraib? Two dozen killed by some psychos in Haditha? Some Korans desecrated at Guantanamo Bay? A few dozen men made to “think” they were going to drown for a few moments in “secret prisons”? The comparison with wars conducted throughout history (right up to the present day, really) is too ridiculous even to be a joke.

That said, I think it’s becoming clear that the Iraq conflict, at least in terms of major U.S. invovement, has to be brought to conclusion in the near future. Support among the U.S. public is ebbing. That’s just the way it is.

I submit that this situation is eerily similar to what is going on now in Iraq.

AJ Strata said: “Democrats Complete First Item On Their Contract With Al Qaeda – Surrender Iraq.”

Ouch….