Politics > Politics-USA > After victory on Iraq resolution, Democrats will focus on troop equipment, funds
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"Harry Hope" |
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15 Feb 2007 09:18:51 AM |
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After victory on Iraq resolution, Democrats will focus on troop equipment, funds |
From The Associated Press, 2/15/07:
http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/02/15/us.iraq.ap/
Democrats to focus next on troop equipment, funds
WASHINGTON (AP) --
Democrats, expecting House passage Friday of a resolution opposing
President Bush's military buildup in Iraq, are turning their sights on
an even loftier target -- the Pentagon's multibillion-dollar budget.
Congress next month is to consider Bush's request for nearly $100
billion more for the war, a move that promises to become a new
battleground over his Iraq policy.
The House this week has been debating a nonbinding measure that
expresses support for the troops in Iraq but opposes the president's
decision to send an additional 21,500 troops there.
A small group of House Republicans said Wednesday they disagreed with
Bush's plan.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-California, has said the Democratic
resolution was the first step in a longer campaign to end U.S.
participation in the nearly four-year-old conflict. (watch how the
public has become increasingly frustrated with the war Video
http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/02/15/us.iraq.ap/)
In a letter to the president on Wednesday, Pelosi and Senate Majority
Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, said that "thousands of the new troops"
being sent into Iraq "will apparently not have the armor and equipment
they need to perform the mission and reduce the likelihood of
casualties."
Demanding that troops meet certain requirements before being sent into
harm's way was an idea initiated by Rep. Jack Murtha of Pennsylvania,
the top Democrat on the House committee that oversees military
spending.
Murtha, a war veteran who advocates pulling troops out of Iraq, has
said he wants to forbid the Pentagon from sending additional troops
"unless they have adequate training and unless they have adequate
equipment."
Murtha said he believes the Army may have no units that can meet those
standards, meaning Bush's attempt to send more troops to Iraq would be
checked.
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When are are we gonna look at the billions the Bush Crime Family is
fraudulently shoveling into contractor buddies pockets?
Harry
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