'Peanuts' for Petraeus Everybody's a General in the Army called Congress.

'Peanuts' for Petraeus
[FONT=Garamond, Times]Everybody's a General in the Army called Congress.[/FONT]

[FONT=Verdana, Times]Saturday, March 17, 2007 12:01 a.m. EDT [/FONT]

[FONT=Verdana, Times]To understand why the Founders put Presidents in charge of war fighting, look no further than the supplemental war spending bill now moving through the House. Everybody's a four-star in Congress's Army, and every general wants his own command, especially if it includes cash for the troops, er, campaign contributors. Too bad none of this bears any relation to what real General David Petraeus is trying to accomplish in Iraq. [/FONT]

[FONT=Verdana, Times]Not that we don't sympathize with Defense Secretary Nancy Pelosi. She won the majority in part by riding antiwar sentiment, and now her antiwar ranks are demanding satisfaction. So she's moved beyond the political evasion of "non-binding" resolutions and is trying to attach binding legal restrictions in spending bills on President Bush's ability to conduct the war. This is the strategy she and General Jack Murtha have worked out. [/FONT]

[FONT=Verdana, Times]Trouble is, some of her sincere antiwar Members don't think even this goes far enough and want to cut off funding for the war immediately. (Wisconsin Democrat David Obey recently referred to this crowd as "idiot liberals," a phrase we've often longed to use but thought a tad unsubtle.) [/FONT]

[FONT=Verdana, Times]And double trouble is, Speaker Pelosi also has more-moderate Members from swing districts who wouldn't be caught dead voting to de-fund the troops. They don't want to be seen "micromanaging" the war either, to quote Tennessee Democrat Jim Cooper's apt word. This angst was also on display this week in the Senate, which rejected similar stop-the-war-now language as all but one Republican held and three Democrats defected.[/FONT]

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Trajan Octavian Titus said:

[FONT=Verdana, Times]Great article read the whole thing, it's about the extra $21 Billion the ****ing Democrats tagged on to the military appropriations bill for sh!t; such as, $25 million on spinach and $74 million for peanuts, litterally ****ing peanuts, well **** me runnin'.[/FONT]

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