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.