Dems rollover (again).

Democrats have cut slack for President Bush once again since taking the majority in both House in January 2007. This time the House & Senate approved several billions of dollars for the Iraq war. This appropriations bill passes without the troop withdrawal timeline that Democrats passed a few weeks ago, which President Bush vetoed. Republicans were, not surprisingly, the strongest supporters continuing the war though there were a few brave dissenters. In the Senate the breakdown was 80-14, and in the House it was 280-142. The bill sets up goals for the new Iraqi government, which they must pass to receive funding from the US. President Bush can still send the money to Iraq, without any regard for their performance. So, if in the next year, the government falls apart because of the civil war and he puts in new weak democratic or authoritative leadership, as we've done in a whole boatload of other countries around the world, then the money still goes to Iraq, despite the fact no progress was made.

The article also quotes a few MCs. House Republican leader John Boehner of Ohio tried to hold back his tears when he mentioned the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. “After 3,000 of our fellow citizens died at the hands of these terrorists, when are we going to take them on? When are we going to defeat them,” he asked.

Well, I think we now know that the dictatorship of Saddam Hussein, though sadistic and murderous, really had nothing to with terrorism-specifically the September 11 attacks. So, maybe the way we defeat terrorists is by going after terrorists that attack us, like Osama Bin Laden (though I don't think this will really help, because Al Quaida will just find another leader, but it's certianly better than Iraq). The guy that provided the US with this intelligence, an Iranian spy - Chalabi - became the leader of the Iraqi government.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18841182/