A clash between Congress and president bush is inevitable, the opposition for Bushes' surge of American troops headed for Iraq will be discussed frankly between members of Congress next week. Bush's revised strategy has sparked strong opposition among Democrats, who has pledged to their rank and file that the vote next week would be just the starting point and stated that there would be other legislation against the war to follow. A move, Democrats hope that will change the course of Bushes' private war.
In the House the rules allow that there be a three-day debate and vote on a measure that has been advanced to the House floor. Unlike the Senate where the republicans so far have blocked the democrats attempt to have a full-fledged debate regarding the war.
The Republican leaders still have not understood that the influx of 21,000 troops will not have a positive effect on the war; these scoundrels still believe that they are winning the war in Iraq after the deaths of approximately 3,000 American troops. We were closer to winning the war in Iraq the very day that we invaded the country, where as we are now engaging in a civil war that we created. And the number of American and coalition deaths will continue to rise as long as president Bush "stays the course" and continues on with his ill-gotten strategies.
Democrats want to introduce legislation that would mandate redeployment with in the year. Democrats are holding public hearings, hoping to undermine any support for the war with the ever so dwindling numbers of Bush supporters. In a public meeting Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., accused the former U.S. occupation chief in Iraq of haphazardly doling out billions of dollars after the invasion. Waxman said 363 tons of cash was loaded onto airplanes and sent into the war zone in 2003, adding that U.S. officials had "no way of knowing whether the cash would wind up in enemy hands."
Paul Brenner who was the head of the Coalition Provisional Authority stated that he had done the best job he could, and that the economy of Iraq was flat from years of being suppressed by Saddam Hussein. Which leads us to the question are the Iraqi people better off today? Living under the Bush administrations war, rebuilding economy? Maybe these arguments are old and has been used many times before, but until this president faces up to his failures, his lies to the American people and to the people of the world as well, I am afraid Iraq will be as it is now a country of civil war, a country of people who are at the mercy of another kind of dictator who goes by the name of GEORGE BUSH.