War Funding

by Jerome Armstrong, www.mydd.com

This is disappointing:

The House this week will consider a $96.7 billion emergency supplemental appropriations bill that funds wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and other military and domestic needs for the rest of the fiscal year.

It is "expected to pass" the House "easily, despite anticipated opposition from anti-war Democrats".

At least we have a few on our side. But really, I can't believe that our Democratic leadership is continuing the war charade for the Pentagon through supplemental appropriations for the occupation of Iraq and the mistake of Afghanistan.

What happened to forcing it into the Pentagon budget?

Meanwhile the GOP opposition: "But Republicans might attempt to provoke a partisan fight during floor debate over the future of the 241 detainees held at the military's detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba."

You have to give them credit for knowing how to move the debate. They get the funding they want for the war, even with Democrats in total control, and still make the Democrats look like lovers of terrorists.

Anyway, this will give us a roll call of the Democratic wing of the Democratic Party at least-- which in this case translates into honest accounting & transparency.

It boggles my mind to think that we spent the six years of this decade, 2002-08, turning the Democratic Party into the party that said "no more" of Iraq, and won the approval of the majority; only to turn around and do exactly the same sort of supplemental appropriations of war funding as was done under Bush.