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If Bush Vetos the war spending bill...

musicismylife78musicismylife78 Posts: 6,116
edited April 2007 in A Moving Train
Does that mean he cant get the 124 billion promised to him in the bill?
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  • CosmoCosmo Posts: 12,225
    Cheguevara6 wrote:
    Does that mean he cant get the 124 billion promised to him in the bill?
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    Yes. Veto means no go.
    The bad thing is... the soldiers need the money. Their equipment needs to be repaired and/or replaced. You know that the President will not reduce the staff... like companies reduce their staff... if the money isn't there. The troops will be made to 'make do' with what they've got. As the politicians bicker about this and that... the guys in the shitmire just have to deal with it.
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    It really IS time to shut down this operation. It is a failure and no one has a good idea on how to fix it. I think that if we are really serious about 'winning' this thing... we need about 300,000 to 4000,000 quality troops on the ground in order to provide overall security throughout the country. QUALITY troops, not Shi'ite Death Squad militias. We are playing a game of 'Whack-a-Mole' over there... surge in Baghdad and the troublemakers pop up somepleace else. We need a hammer on each hole in order to get this thing up and running. But, no one wants this... more troops... more money. So, if no one wants this... get our guys out of that shithole.
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  • mammasanmammasan Posts: 5,656
    I'm not a big fan of his, but Joe Biden said something that really made sense to me. He said that you can't use military action to solve a political/religious problem. The Sunni and Shi'ites are at such odds at this point that a military solution to this problem will lead you to failure. I think it is about serious time we consider splitting the country up into a confederation. This to me seems like the only viable option at this point.
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  • CosmoCosmo Posts: 12,225
    mammasan wrote:
    I'm not a big fan of his, but Joe Biden said something that really made sense to me. He said that you can't use military action to solve a political/religious problem. The Sunni and Shi'ites are at such odds at this point that a military solution to this problem will lead you to failure. I think it is about serious time we consider splitting the country up into a confederation. This to me seems like the only viable option at this point.
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    The problem with that... oil. Who gets the oil?
    And the Iraqis are the ones who need to decide this... not us... not the U.N.... them. Until they figure this out, no amount of outside military force or tactics will change their mindset and/or culture. The only way to make Iraq look like Kansas is to kill everyone in Iraq and move everybody in Kansas to Iraq.
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  • blackredyellowblackredyellow Posts: 5,889
    mammasan wrote:
    I'm not a big fan of his, but Joe Biden said something that really made sense to me. He said that you can't use military action to solve a political/religious problem. The Sunni and Shi'ites are at such odds at this point that a military solution to this problem will lead you to failure. I think it is about serious time we consider splitting the country up into a confederation. This to me seems like the only viable option at this point.

    I go back and forth on Biden with a lot of things, but he has consistently made the most sense to me on Iraq.
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