Put the Handcuffs on Bush
Nov 14, 2007
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| Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has said that if Bush vetoes a funding bill with conditions, "then the president won't get his $50 billion.” Urge your Senators today to back him up! |
Dear Friend,
Remember prior to the invasion of Iraq, when the Bush Administration predicted that a war against Iraq would cost only $50 to $60 billion? How about when former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld brushed off war cost estimates of $300 billion as "baloney"?
With war costs already topping $600 billion, President Bush is asking for another $50 billion for war to tide him over and fund the war until February 2008 – a down payment on a total request of $190 billion in war funding for 2008.
Yesterday, the House of Representatives placed conditions on this “bridge” funding, including a requirement that our troops begin to come home within 30 days of the bill becoming law, and setting a goal to get most combat troops out of Iraq by December 15, 2008.
Now, we need the Senate to match the House’s call for an end to this ill-conceived war. Click here to urge your Senators to follow the House’s lead and place restrictions on any more war funding. We can’t let President Bush have a blank check for his wars in the Middle East. A vote in the Senate is expected as early as this afternoon.
Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell is already trying to duck his sworn responsibility to oversee President Bush. On November 13, he introduced his own war funding bill (S. 2340) that shovels $70 billion to President Bush with absolutely no restrictions.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said at a private meeting last week that if President Bush tries to veto war funding with restrictions, Congress would not send him any more money. “If you don’t want that, Mr. President, you ain’t getting nothing,” Pelosi told supporters.
Senate Majority leader Harry Reid echoed Pelosi’s sentiment, announcing at a November 13 press conference that if Bush vetoes the bill, as threatened, “ then the president won't get his $50 billion.”
The costs are mounting higher and higher for a disastrous war with no end in sight. . $50 billion here, $50 billion there – and that doesn’t even begin to factor in the cost in human life and limb. Help put an end to Bush's spending spree today. Say “No!” to a blank check for war.
Sincerely,
John Isaacs and Guy Stevens
