Damien435
Active member
If Bush vetoes the emergency spending bill passed by the Senate yesterday, who will be blamed for shortchanging the troops?
My own personal view: This was supposed to be an emergency spending bill for the troops in Iraq, the Democrats and even some Republicans then added their own little pieces to the bill, spinach, peanuts and teaching subsidies. The frosting on the cake for the Democrats was the troop pullout plan, if this bill passes Congress will have put a non-binding withdrawal date of March 31, 2008, only 368 short days from today. Bush will Veto this bill based on the subsidies and pullout plan. So who will be blamed? Congress or the President? My money is on Congress, I don't know what Bush has been taking lately, but over the last couple months he seems to have turned quite a few things around in the White House, his troop surge appears to be having a positive effect, and it appears as if Iraq is winnable after all. Really bad timing on the part of the Democrats.
My own personal view: This was supposed to be an emergency spending bill for the troops in Iraq, the Democrats and even some Republicans then added their own little pieces to the bill, spinach, peanuts and teaching subsidies. The frosting on the cake for the Democrats was the troop pullout plan, if this bill passes Congress will have put a non-binding withdrawal date of March 31, 2008, only 368 short days from today. Bush will Veto this bill based on the subsidies and pullout plan. So who will be blamed? Congress or the President? My money is on Congress, I don't know what Bush has been taking lately, but over the last couple months he seems to have turned quite a few things around in the White House, his troop surge appears to be having a positive effect, and it appears as if Iraq is winnable after all. Really bad timing on the part of the Democrats.