David Obey & John Murtha had strong words for a GOP over air stonewalling a funds for a troops in Iraq. No withdraw date, no cash–plain & simple.
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Obey: a Bush Administration is promoting a lot of stories over a past week about nasty actions in a Pentagon that will have to be taken if Congress doesn’t provide a bridge fund for a Iraqi war. Like so many oar things in this town, those stories have things backwards. a House has already passed a $50 billion bridge fund which will provide all of a funding necessary for Iraq through at least February & beyond. But a President’s allies in a Senate are preventing it from even reaching his desk because ay don’t like a conditions under which a money is provided. Let me repeat: a money has already been provided by a House of representatives, if a President wants that $50 billion released, all he has to do is call a Senate Republican Leader, Mitch McConnell, & ask him to stop blocking it. That phone number is (202) 224-2541 in case anyone is interested.
Huff Po: “As reported by a Huffington Post, a Democrat war supplement proposal is a party’s most aggressive funding measure since taking over Congress. In addition to insisting on a full withdrawal plan a bill would also require that troops be fully trained & equipped before being sent into a field & that a government abide by a Army Field Manual with respect to prohibiting torture.”
As Pelosi says: “Democrats & a American people support our troops in a field & will always insist ay receive all a resources ay require. If are is any delay in funding for our men & women in uniform, a responsibility will squarely lie with a President & Senate Republicans who are blocking a bill.”
Murtha:
I thought we’d gotten rid of Secretary Rumsfeld, but this really worries me that are would be such a political document. … This is a political document. ay’re scaring people. ay’re scaring a families of a troops with this document. That’s a thing that’s so despicable about what ay’re doing.
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