Bush On The Air: Showdown Over Iraq
March 31, 2007, 11:55pm
President Bush took his fight with Democrats in Congress over funding the war in Iraq to the airwaves today, reiterating his threat to veto pending emergency spending bills passed by the House and Senate.
“Each of the Democrats’ bills would substitute the judgment of politicians in Washington for that of our generals on the ground,” Bush said in his weekly radio address. “Each bill would impose restrictive conditions on our military commanders. Each bill would also set an arbitrary deadline for surrender and withdrawal in Iraq, and I believe that would have disastrous consequences for our safety here at home.”
VoteVets, meanwhile, responded to Bush’s radio address by getting former Lt. Col. Andrew Horne, a Marine Corps veteran who served in Iraq, to defend efforts in the House and Senate to demand “accountability from the administration” in regard to its policies in Iraq.
He said Congress is right to try to attach conditions on the war in Iraq to an emergency spending bill for continuing operations there and in Afghanistan. President Bush has vowed to veto any bill that would require troop withdrawal from Iraq.
“Nowhere in our history would there be a more blatant example of a commander-in-chief undermining the troops under his care,” Horne said. “There is absolutely no excuse for the president to withhold funding. And if he does exercise a veto, Congress must side with the troops and override it.”
Categories: Military, Iraq, White House, Weekly Radio Address, Budget
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