Actually Buce_Daddy almost none of our Senator voted for/against the bill. The cowards sidestepped the issue via a voice vote. There were only 6 senators on the floor when the measure passed. Even Sen Robert Byrd, who shouted NO! in opposition to granting $20 billion to Iraq, refused to call for a quorum, and recorded vote.
Cowardly vote
And the Bush apologists need to realize that Bush is spending the American taxpayer’s money on Iraq like he has a blank check.
About time somebody mentioned that “voice vote”. No doubt if I make the effort I can come up with a better example of puerile and sniveling cowardice on the part of our Parliament of Whores. But this definitely rockets to the Top Ten.
If you had told me 35 years ago that I would ever admire Sen. Robert Byrd as a courageous voice of …oh, never mind. Even now, it buggers all reasoning.
And I bet you my man Paul Wellstone would have kicked up a fuss!
(Rest in peace, Paul. Then hurry back.)
JC, not voting is worse than voting either way IMO.
5 time champ, I agree with your last statement but the point I was trying to make is that Bush doesn’t sit around writing checks, it has to go through Congress who was either supportive or too chicken shit to stop it.
Good point. My boy Lindsey (note the state) was refering to the fact that 60b goes toward military effort and 20 to reconstruction. See the foxnews link above and here’s Lindsey’s statement.
Oh, I agree. Completely.
Cowardice should be its own punishment but I’m certain the rascals will get away with this one.
I’m one of the ones who didn’t like the idea, but now that we’re in there, the only solution I can see is to keep our boys in there until we can set up some sort of lasting, self-sufficient government in our wake. In fact, I think we owe it to the Iraqi people, pissed as I am that we have to spend it.
We lied our way into this bullshit war. I think the 2002 elections showed that we (meaning myself and the rest of the American people) tacitly supported it. We knew beforehand that some of the intelligence was bullshit; we knew the President was playing hide-the-ball by including no funds in the FY2004 budget request for the planned invasion; I think that most people who stopped to consider those two factors probably concluded that we were going to take it in the pooper down the line.
While I personally did not support the war chants and backed that up at the booth, it’s still my fucking problem just as much as it is the problem of the Iraqi people. After nearly three years of living in the same cell with President Bush, my rectum is calloused enough that I can afford to take one more reaming if it will help fix the problem over there in Iraq.
That having been said, however, I think the American people owe it to themselves to support one more regime change. It’s scheduled for November, 2004, if enough reasonable people show up to vote.
I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again, we have to vote this clown Bush out.
Get him the fuck out of office.
I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again, we have to vote this clown Bush out.
Get him the fuck out of office.
Let’s not forget the President’s “sons of September 11th” statement (whilst touring toasty California) regarding the worst loss of life in Iraq for the US. Could the Senate possibly quibble after that?
Filthy cowards.
Filthy, pandering, fucking cowards.
And don’t get me started on Senator Wellstone. That’s a whole new thread and I’m plumb out of tinfoil.
You have said it again, World Eater.
Let’s all make sure to ask our Senators how they voted on the bill. Or, if we’re being charitable, how they would have voted if they’d managed to come in to work that day.
Great idea! Here, I have this shiney new Diebold electronic voting machine you can use… 
A sidebar item in a recent issue of Time magazine reported an American company was awarded a $15 million contract by our government to rebuild an Iraqi factory.
Before that American company could start an Iraqi businessman managed to obtain some of the money stolen by Saddam and rebuilt the same factory, for less than $85,000.