Bush's $87 Billion Dollar Request.

[richardf8]

My take on this is grant it. Unconditionally. The democratic plan to finance this through Iraqi oil futures is every bit as morally bankrupt as was this war in the first place. Iraq is already a nation deeply in debt. To add to its debt burden to rebuild the infrastructure that we chose to destroy is absolutely unconscionable.

The Democrats in congress by and large have no cause or business balking at Bush's request. There are exceptions, of course, but by and large, congressional democrats voted to grant Bush the authority to execute this war back in fall of 2002. That vote was this vote and any democrats who vote against Bush's funding request after having voted to give him that authority last year are simply refusing accountability for their actions.

Democrats acquiesced in this expensive situation, over the objections of the UN, and the 53% of Americans who did not want to go to war without UN backing. Having got on the roller coaster, they cannot suddenly decide to get off when they see a big drop ahead of them.

Comments

[morgan1.livejournal.com]

Sigh, expensive as it is, you're right. I was kind of appalled when Dennis Kucinich declared that if he were president he'd pull all our troops out of Iraq immediately. I think it was absolutely wrong for us to go thrash the Iraqi government just to assuage our sore national ego ('Hey, terrorists may have hit us hard where we live, but we can still beat up your whole country!'), but we did it, so now we're committed for the long haul. We can't just pull out because it was stupid and wrong in the first place, and we can't do it on the cheap or quickly. Whatever you thought of the war in the first place, we have an obligation, now that we've trashed the place, to put things right again. If we don't, Iraq is going to be another Afghanistan--constant internal warfare, no real government, simmering resentment at the US for screwing them over, great place for terrorists.