Comments on: Pelosi: No Blank Check For Bush In Iraq

CBS News Exclusive: New Speaker Hints That Congress Will Deny Funding

marcpcbs wrote:

"Now whats going to happen is Pelosi is going to shut down funding, Reduce our troops to a dangerous level. Any and all structure that we fought for so dearly will fall apart in short order and hundreds of thousand of Iraqi civilians will be murdered and we will end up running for our lives and Pelosi will blame everything on Bush."

If you can stop your Democrat bashing for just one moment, you may actually realise that what she is suggesting makes sense.

$400 billion has been poured into Iraq and yet, every day, Americans, Brits and Iraqis are dying and there is still no end in sight.

The violence is continuing and there is no sign of it ending anytime in the future.

And when you consider that a considerable portion of that $400 billion is unaccounted for and has been lost forever due to the corruption that is rife in Iraq, commonsense should dictate that the Bush Administration needs to be held accountable for American tax payers money.

I certainly don't want to see our troops lose out, but I d@mn well want to know where my money is going.

I don't want to support one single corrupt Iraqi politician or official.

[luvny-2009]

"I guess the Queen want's to hold the purse strings"
I was wondering how long it would take before Pelosi would start getting the nasty slams and names because she's a she. She's got more on the ball than most of us. Way to go Pelosi keep that dumb a$$ Dumbya in check!

[gunnerv1]

I guess the Queen want's to hold the purse strings for the "Welfare State". If you look to Europe, you will see that they are having to rethink the "Cradle to Grave" welfare system. They are now seeing all income brackets going into the 50% tax bracket, "ain't nuthin like workin fo tha Man"

[ramos937]

At least someone, with some authority, is trying to control President Bush.

This comment is limitted to Iraq aid. President Bush wants to give over $1 billion more in aid to Iraq. A while back, the GAO Inspector General-Iraq, a position the Republicans tried to eliminate, proved that over $800 million in aid goes unaccounted for each year. Nothing has ever been done to correct this. Aid flows from the US to the Malaki government and then all accounting ceases. The projects comtenplated never get built. WHAT HAPPENS TO THE MONEY??

Until proper accounting procedures are put into place and enforced, aid to Iraq should be stopped.

[gladys_over]

RE "My 7-year-old grandson just said, "The way feelfree1 thinks is like a broken record." How did my grandson know about broken records?"

That's funny. Old figures of speech can long outlive their origins.

We still say "we'll drop that idea like a red hot horseshoe." Not many people today have ever seen a blacksmith at work, however.

[gladys_over]

Too bad General William Westmoreland isn't alive now to appreciate this.

He surged U.S. troops up to over 500,000 in Vietnam in 1968.

He would be pleased to see Dubya adopting his strategic vision for victory.

("The past will be repeated by those who do not study it" - Thucydides)

[hillaryin08]

Thats right! Lets cut their funding and starve them out! Lets take it out on the troops like we did in the 60-70's. It worked then and it will work now!!!

Vote for me. I mean Hillary

[jimfinster]

marcpcbs:

feelfree1 has his facts right. Try watching something other than Fox, and you would be better informed.

[hermit22]

I am no fan of Nancy Pelosi, but what a fine picture of Grandma and the youngin's.

The little girl, securely holding the baby is a rare sight. Oh so responsible and kind! God bless her!

[marcpcbs]

feelfree1

My 7-year-old grandson just said, "The way feelfree1 thinks is like a broken record."

How did my grandson know about broken records?

I'm still laughing.

[marcpcbs]

feelfree1

I can tell your a Bush Basher because of the easy and casual way you fling miss-information. Someone like you probably steered the Titanic into the iceberg just to prove a point.

If we cut and run the death toll in Iraq will be ten times bigger than the amount nesseay to make you happy. I wonder just how many dead people it's going to take to make you happy.

[feelfree1]

marcpcbs,

Re: "Any and all structure that we fought for so dearly will fall apart in short order and hundreds of thousand of Iraqi civilians will be murdered..."

This has already happened, quite some time ago. Even many of the U.S. "contractors" have bailed out of the U.S. debacle in Iraq by now. Electricity, water, garbage services, infrastructure- all worse than prior to the invasion. Some 655,000 excess dead Iraqis so far, as a result of the illegal U.S. invasion, according to the best available estimate.

For now, the Democrats seem satisfied with blaming the Iraqi people and the Iraqi puppet officials for the mounting U.S. defeats in that country.

I predict that this strategy will blow up in their Corporate-owned faces, as the Republicans move to pin blame on the Democrats, both for our defeats in Iraq, AND for our "Enoronized" economy, as it begins to collapse.

In the mean time, Operation "Blame Iraq" seems to be well underway.

[jimfinster]

lieberman18:

You want to see a clown? Go look in the mirror, dude.

[jimfinster]

marcpcbs:

What you have described is already happening. Did you know that 1,000 Iraqis die violently each day, on average?

[marcpcbs]

Pelosi: No Blank Check For Bush In Iraq

Now whats going to happen is Pelosi is going to shut down funding, Reduce our troops to a dangerous level. Any and all structure that we fought for so dearly will fall apart in short order and hundreds of thousand of Iraqi civilians will be murdered and we will end up running for our lives and Pelosi will blame everything on Bush.

And the iceing on the cake is that we will believe her.

And I didn't vote for Bush and the Iraqis will be left standing there wondering, "What in the hell is that woman doing?"

[j-whitman]

Good night all,, I'll be dreaming of President Pelosi restoring our Nations National Security & Honor In The World once more.

[lucasnico]

lieberman18.....so much hate.....so little education.....
John Kennedy = civil rights
Bill Clinton = reformed health care and a balanced budget
Jimmy Carter = peace
George Bush = war...and more war

you've lost the senate, lost the house....and 80% of America disapproves of your president.
you are the definition of a minority.

[j-whitman]

Lieberman,,, Times up,, you probably had to ask your mom what Iraq is anyway.

[j-whitman]

Lieberman,,, Tell me, What part of this Don't you understand:
The US government has been involved in drawing up the law, a draft of which has been seen by The Independent on Sunday. It would give big oil companies such as BP, Shell and Exxon 30-year contracts to extract Iraqi crude and allow the first large-scale operation of foreign oil interests in the country since the industry was nationalised in 1972.

[j-whitman]

Lie berman,,, So you don't like women ?? Just "Brokeback Mountian" Cowboys like Bush huh ??