DEMS New Plan For Iraq-"September Is Going To Be A Very Bleak Month For Bush Admin"

[kpete]

Congressional leaders from both political parties are giving President Bush a matter of months to prove that the Iraq war effort has turned a corner, with September looking increasingly like a decisive deadline.

September Could Be Key Deadline in War
Lawmakers Call for Proof of Progress by Fall

By Jonathan Weisman and Thomas E. Ricks
Washington Post Staff Writers
Tuesday, May 8, 2007; Page A01

Congressional leaders from both political parties are giving President Bush a matter of months to prove that the Iraq war effort has turned a corner, with September looking increasingly like a decisive deadline.

In that month, political pressures in Washington will dovetail with the military timeline in Baghdad. Gen. David H. Petraeus, the commanding general in Iraq, has said that by then he will have a handle on whether the current troop increase is having any impact on political reconciliation between Iraq's warring factions. And fiscal 2008, which begins Oct. 1, will almost certainly begin with Congress placing tough new strings on war funding.

"Many of my Republican colleagues have been promised they will get a straight story on the surge by September," said Sen. Gordon Smith (R-Ore.). "I won't be the only Republican, or one of two Republicans, demanding a change in our disposition of troops in Iraq at that point. That is very clear to me."

"September is the key," said Rep. James P. Moran Jr. (D-Va.), a member of the House Appropriations subcommittee that funds defense. "If we don't see a light at the end of the tunnel, September is going to be a very bleak month for this administration."

more at:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/07/AR2007050701689.html

[Raven]

1. It's time to begin a new death count.

Starting now. This will tell us how many of our children serving in Iraq will be sacrificed to raw politics on the part of Republicans and impotence on the part of the Democrats.

[Buns_of_Fire]

2. Added pressure on Petraeus

Chucklenutz is going to expect him to perform miracles. And if there are no miracles to report, why, just make up some!

[Botany]

3. and that means @ least another 1,000 dead Americans

bush will push & push to try to get a victory in Iraq by then .....
..... and many more Iraqis will die as bush tries to force an impossible solution
onto unwilling people.

Hey everybody the war was a mistake based on lies .... it will not get any better.

[Donnachaidh]

4. This is total bullshit

NOW it's September. In August we'll have yet another pissing contest, and the date will be moved back to December. Rinse and repeat until Bush is gone.

NOW Damn it! How many more troops need to die to get this DONE?

[MadHound]

5. Ooo, and what are the Dems going to do come September?

Pass another non-binding resolution? Pass another bill that has no chance of being signed into law? Punt the ball down another few months so that they can continue to play politics with people's very lives?

The Dems have the power and the means to bring this war to an end. Simply bury each and every supplemental funding bill in committee and force the troops home. Plain, pure, easy to do. But for some reason Pelosi and the Dems took defunding and impeachment off the table before they even were seated. I wonder why that is?:think:

[Jacobin]

6. Just one more Friedman Unit, please. Just oooonnnne more

and we'll see light at the end of the tunnel.


(prediction: In September we'll need just ooonnnneee more Friedman Unit, just one more.)

[Botany]

7. The light at the end of the tunnel could be from this

[GeorgeGist]

8. I just love the smell of ...

leadershit in the morning. It takes my breath away.