Friday - February 16, 2007
Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
Speaking in an interview released on the anti-war MoveCongress.com website, Murtha said he would attach a provision to an upcoming $93 billion supplemental spending bill for Iraq and Afghanistan. If passed, he said, the provision would be “the most important vote in changing the direction of this war,” because it would “limit the options of the president and should stop the surge.”
Apart from the year-at-home requirement, the provision would also state that combat troops “must have the equipment and the training, and they must be certified by the chiefs of the various services before they can go back,” the congressman said. Murtha added that his proposal would prevent the Bush administration from extending the term of enlistment for military personnel.
“Now, if they can’t extend people, if they can’t send people back that don’t have equipment and so forth, they can’t continue the surge,” he said. “If this resolution passes the House and the Senate, the president could veto it, but then he wouldn’t have any money,” Murtha noted. “What we’re trying to do is make sure people understand we’re supporting the troops, we’re protecting the troops, but on the other hand, we’re going to stop this surge. The other thing we’re doing is saying, no permanent bases.”
MORT KONDRACKE: That would deny funds for any troops that go to Iraq unless they meet certain benchmarks of training, of equipment, of — they have to be back in the states a year, you can’t send them over there if they haven’t had their years rest. You can’t extend troops beyond a certain length of time service in Iraq.
Look, I mean it’s pretty clever on two different levels. One, it pretends to be for the troops, I mean, to make sure that they’re trained adequately and rested adequately and all this. And it’s also appears to be for the troops in that if you vote against the supplemental with this in it, you’ll be against funding the troops while they’re in combat. But it is truly anti-troop, because you’ve got — the surge will be well underway and what Murtha is going to try to do is deny reinforcements for these troops . . . leaving them more vulnerable than they were.
NINA EASTON: What happens if it passes both Houses and it lands on the president’s desk and the president says, “I’m sorry, I’m commander in chief, this is micromanaging the war. I’m going to ignore this.” He might not even bother to veto it and then it goes to the courts.
FRED BARNES: This is way too clever by a half for two reasons. One, it’s clear what Democrats are doing. . . . And secondly. . . in micromanaging the war with all these restrictions and so on that Mort talked about, they risk taking ownership of this war. I mean, this is Bush’s war, it’s the Republican’s war, but if they’re going to apply all these standards to it and micromanage the war . . . it could become their war.
Posted by The Skipper
on 02/16/2007 at 01:08 PM
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