Iraq Spending

(<-- Chuck Knoblauch threw a ball at his mother once.)






Great piece by Keith Olbermann on MSNBC.com today, blasting the Democrats for being spineless on war funding.

My favorite...

"Few men or women elected in our history...have been sent into office with a mandate more obvious, nor instructions more clear:

Get us out of Iraq.

Yet after six months of preparation and execution—half a year gathering the strands of public support; translating into action, the collective will of the nearly 70 percent of Americans who reject this War of Lies, the Democrats have managed only this:

*The Democratic leadership has surrendered to a president...that the Democrats “give the troops their money”;
*The Democratic leadership has agreed to finance the deaths of Americans in a war that has only reduced the security of Americans;
*The Democratic leadership has given Mr. Bush all that he wanted, with the only caveat being, not merely meaningless symbolism about benchmarks for the Iraqi government, but optional meaningless symbolism about benchmarks for the Iraqi government.