Associated Press: The vote reflected the reluctance by each party to deny money to troops in the field. At the same time, anti-war Democrats had found their position weakened by the decline in violence in Iraq.
Yes, Congress… you have shown the truth to the lie that “you can support the troops without supporting the mission.” When it came down to it, you HAVE to support the mission in order to support the troops.
Thank you, US Congress, for recognizing that our men and women in Iraq and Afghanistan are doing important work that demands to be supported.
House OKs War Spending, Bill Heads to President for Welcome Signature – AP/FOX News.com
Congress approved $70 billion Wednesday for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, a bitter finish for majority Democrats who tried to force a change in President Bush’s war policy.
The House’s 272-142 vote also sent the president a $555 billion catchall spending bill that combines the war money with money for 14 Cabinet departments.
Bush and his Senate GOP allies forced the Iraq money upon anti-war Democrats as the price for permitting the year-end budget deal to pass and be signed. But other Democrats were eager to avoid being seen as not supporting troops who are in harm’s way — and avoid weeks of bashing by Bush for failing to provide that money.
God Bless the United States Armed Forces for liberating 60 million oppressed men, women and children since 2001.
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-Bruce (GayPatriot)
Sidebar, but this seems like a good place for it.
PlanetOut and apparently the New York Times, are now pushing the myth that Saddam’s Iraq was a peaceful, kite-flying paradise… for gays and lesbians.
“Gays were ignored and accepted before American troops invaded in 2003”, they claim. Yes… because Saddam and his torturers loved and approved of gays that much. And let me sell you my lettuce mine in Florida.
This meme – which I’m sure we’ll be hearing more of, from our nuttier leftie, tacitly-pro-Saddam commentors – is a neo-Stalinist re-write of history, and yet another example of the Left’s “misplaced blame” disease.
Because, if gays are being persecuted by “religious extremists” in the new Iraq – IN ADDITION to their previous persecution under Saddam – Well, WHO are those “religious extremists”? (Hint: a… l… Q… a… e…….. and others who are backed / misled by Iran.) And shouldn’t we, as gays, then be opposing al Qaeda and Iran? And supporting those who fight against them? Rather than pining (implicitly or explicitly) for Saddam?
Here is The New York Times version.
Interesting, and yet dripping with contradiction and punches-pulled (to avoid undermining the desired spin), if you know where to look.
Intelligent people would have gotten a clue long before 60+ votes went down in flames.
According to this, for what that’s worth, homosexuality was made illegal in 2001. Apparently, though, there was a crackdown on gays in the 1990s. Don’t sound so friendly.
Let’s get back on topic…..
Well, just one more deviation…..especially since Hili, the silly leftist puppet gay, argues that gays weren’t arrested or punished under Saddam.
My, how his story has changed.
“In the late ‘80s and early ‘90s there were a couple of gay clubs in Baghdad,” Hili explained, “but they were all shut down in 1993 after sanctions were imposed against Saddam’s regime and Iraq. We had a weekly gay nightclub in the Palestine Hotel that became the gathering place for gay people, especially for actors and others in the entertainment world, but it, too, was shut down. I was arrested three times for being gay, and tortured. After several attempts, I finally was able to escape the country, going first to Dubai, then Jordan, then Syria, and finally reaching England.”
And also notice how the Times article has been obediently scrubbed to eliminate virtually any mention of what Hili was claiming before……
The Abu Nawas Group, according to Hili, is accumulating evidence that Iranian agents are advising SCIRI and the Iraqi police on how to implement anti-gay persecution. Not only has Iran’s Internet entrapment campaign targeting gays been adopted in Iraq, he said, but there are reports that Iranian agents have been involved in interrogations, questioning those arrested in Persian through translators.
“This is particularly true in Basra in the south,” Hili said.
Gee, I wonder why leftist gays are editing out references to the pervasiveness of Iranian agents in Iraq and their linkages to terrorist groups and corrupt police?
Democrats “We support the troops, only when we’re backed into a corner and aaren’t accusing them of genocide.”
A propos of Democrats doing a lousy job of actually supporting the troops… turns out they have a loooooong history of it.
Just the latest example of the Democrats dragged kicking and screaming while Republicans try to suppport the troops. God Bless the American soldier, who has given millions of women and girls a chance in two countries, where they were doomed to subserviant slavery. Thank You!
The spending bill is an attrocity that Bush should have vetoed. He signed it because they gave him $ for the troops, but he would have gotten that anyway. Meanwhile, the bill is packed to bursting with pork and truly harmful law, that I believe we have only begun to discover since Democrats rammed it through without giving anyone a chance to read it.
Yeah, but since it wasn’t voted on by the congress, the government doesn’t have to fund the pork. See here.
And once again, the Dhimmicrat-controlled Congress caves in to an “unpopular” president.
History hasn’t been written yet, folks. Just remember that 20+ years from now.
Regards,
Peter H.