{"id":230,"date":"2007-03-08T11:05:13","date_gmt":"2007-03-08T16:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/08\/democrats-push-timetable\/"},"modified":"2007-03-08T14:25:19","modified_gmt":"2007-03-08T19:25:19","slug":"democrats-push-timetable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=230","title":{"rendered":"Democrats push timetable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/a-606888~Democrats_Want_Iraq_Pullout_by_Fall_2008.html\" target=\"_blank\">AP story in the DC Examiner<\/a> the Democrats will push for a Fall &#8217;08 withdrawal from Iraq;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In a direct challenge to President Bush, House Democrats announced Thursday that they will push legislation setting a timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. combat troops from Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>The Democratic plan, said House Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey, will bring an &#8220;orderly and responsible close&#8221; to American participation in Iraq&#8217;s &#8220;civil war.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Any other information they want to give al Qaida? And why did Democrats wait to announce this just as the <a href=\"http:\/\/apnews.myway.com\/article\/20070308\/D8NO1S680.html\" target=\"_blank\">President leaves the country for delicate talks with our allies<\/a> to the South? Is this their way of undermining those efforts, too?<\/p>\n<p>Now the Islamic world can just sit back and relax, rebuild and\u00c2\u00a0train; they have the schedule. And I wonder why\u00c2\u00a0Democrats chose Fall of 2008 as their exit date. What&#8217;s happening then?\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Why didn&#8217;t they really display their <em>cojones<\/em> and push for Fall 2007? Maybe because Iraq would be bathed in fire by the time elections rolled around if they had and they&#8217;d have to admit that they don&#8217;t know squat about dealing with terrorists during an election.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/03\/07\/AR2007030702605.html\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Post<\/a> writes about the anguished Democrats;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Even in her conservative Kansas district, calls and letters to freshman House Democrat Nancy Boyda show a constituency overwhelmingly ready for U.S. troops to come home from Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>Yet as the House nears a legislative showdown on the war, Boyda finds herself wracked with doubts. She is convinced that Congress must intervene to stop the war, but is fearful of the chaos that a quick U.S. pullout could prompt. &#8220;Congress has an obligation to do something,&#8221; Boyda said. But she is unsure what to do, worried about anything that &#8220;affects commanders on the ground.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, I can see how much they care about the commanders on the ground.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, attacks in Iraq are down 80% according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldtribune.com\/worldtribune\/07\/front2454168.054861111.html\" target=\"_blank\">World Tribune<\/a>. i wonder if\u00c2\u00a0attacks down because they know they can just wait us out &#8211; or wait Congress out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to an AP story in the DC Examiner the Democrats will push for a Fall &hellip; <a title=\"Democrats push timetable\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=230\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Democrats push timetable<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}