mission what?

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Today, Tuesday 5/1/07, is the 4th anniversary of George Bush’s infamous Mission Accomplished speech, on the flight deck of an aircraft carrier of the US Navy. Today, a 124 Billion dollar funding bill will be put before the president, for his veto. And he will veto it, because in his mind the war is justified and must go on.

And now …

A top US congressional Democrat has raised the possibility of George W. Bush’s impeachment in a bid to force the president to accept a compromise that would place conditions on continued US military involvement in Iraq.Representative John Murtha, who chairs the House Subcommittee on Defense and is close to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, made the comment Sunday in response to repeated threats by the president to veto legislation that calls for withdrawal of US troops from Iraq by the end of next March.

That’s nice, but essentially passive-agressive. Like a massive dog, barking and snarling, then running up to put his forepaws on his shoulders, licking your face and pissing on your leg. What congress needs to do is grow a brain and a conscience, and override the veto.

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  1. Having failed to override, the Democrats will now fall into Rove's trap. They'll meet with the President (they already did today) "to try to reconcile their differences" and after some back-and-forth a toothless emergency funding bill will pass both houses of Congress (with some Republican support and with some left-wing Democrats opposed), and the President will sign it, perhaps even with Pelosi and Reid looking on. The bill will have nonbinding "benchmarks" that the President may or may not abide by, but which will unite both sides in blaming the Iraqis for not cleaning up the mess we've made. And voila! Bush/Cheney's war will suddenly become the Democrats' war too, thereby dissipating the force of a key 2008 election issue favoring the Democrats. I'd say Rove is brilliant, but I figured out this scenario weeks ago. Could it be I'm brilliant too, or is it just that the Democratic leaders in Congress are as dumb as they are unprincipled?

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