Oh.No.They.Didn't! Kudos to the Senate, and boos to Dubya, who's not gonna fund our troops because plannin' is hard, hard work...
Senate OKs war bill with Iraq timeline
In a mostly party line 51-47 vote, the Senate signed off on a bill providing $123 billion to pay for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. It also orders Bush to begin withdrawing troops within 120 days of passage while setting a nonbinding goal of ending combat operations by March 31, 2008.
The vote came shortly after Bush invited all House Republicans to the White House to appear with him in a sort of pep rally to bolster his position in the continuing war policy fight.
"We stand united in saying loud and clear that when we've got a troop in harm's way, we expect that troop to be fully funded," Bush said, surrounded by Republicans on the North Portico, "and we got commanders making tough decisions on the ground, we expect there to be no strings on our commanders."Including, of course, no strings our Supreme Unitary Executive Commander-in-Chief, George Bush.
(Oh, there are no strings on meee!)
