We Are SO Going to War With Iran

Democratic Idiocy, fascism, gop crime, just gross, politics, war August 15th, 2007

Thanks Nancy. Thanks Blue Dogs. Thanks a whole lot. Assholes.

Dems remove Iran language from bill to boost war funding
By Christian Bourge and Peter Cohn CongressDaily March 13, 2007

House Democratic leaders bowed to pressure from conservative members of the party Monday, stripping language that would have required congressional approval for President Bush to invade Iran from a $124.1 billion supplemental spending plan provided to the House Appropriations Committee.

Opposition to the Iran language from conservative Blue Dogs had threatened to sink the spending plan, which had already divided the Democratic Caucus and faced strong Republican opposition and a threatened White House veto.

Democratic aides said the measure makes good on promises to protect U.S. troops in Iraq while directing more money toward operations in Afghanistan. It would provide $226.5 million beyond the Bush administration request for reconstruction and economic development efforts in Afghanistan, for a total of almost $1 billion in spending. That is on top of an additional $1 billion beyond the White House request for military operations there.

The measure is expected to have the support needed to get out of committee, but it remains to be seen what will happen within the full Democratic Caucus, where liberal members and conservative lawmakers have raised significant problems with the proposal. Leadership aides said Monday that Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., and other leaders were still working to ensure enough votes to clear an expected floor vote sometime next week.

The Blue Dogs, who balked at the Iran language as well as some of the proposals for getting troops out of Iraq, will meet to consider the measure this morning. The move is unusual, given that the group usually does not caucus on national security issues.

The leaders have “been responsive enough to take out Iran. That’s one of the two things they need to do,” said Rep. Lincoln Davis, a Blue Dog Democrat from Tennessee, who added that the second step they need to take is to insert waiver provisions that would allow the president to sidestep troop withdrawals and other limitations in specific circumstances.

Thanks a whole lot.

A whole bunch.

h/t to firedoglake

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