Congressional Dems (respond) To Bush: You Must Negotiate Over Iraq

[babylonsister]

http://electioncentral.tpmcafe.com/blog/electioncentral/2007/apr/10/congressional_dems_respond_to_bush_you_must_negotiate

Congressional Dems To Bush: You Must Negotiate Over Iraq
By Greg Sargent | bio

Jim Manley, the spokesman for Senator Harry Reid, emails over this response to President Bush's invitation for Congressional leaders to have non-negotiations with him over the future of Iraq:

"The American people want the President and the Congress to work together to bring this war to an end, safely and responsibly. Congressional Democrats are willing to meet with the President at any time, but we believe that any discussion of an issue as critical as Iraq must be accomplished by conducting serious negotiations without any preconditions. Our goal should be to produce an Iraq supplemental bill that both fully funds our troops and gives them a strategy for success.

"With his threat to veto such a plan for change in Iraq, President Bush is ignoring the clear message of the American people: we must protect our troops, hold the Iraqi government accountable, rebuild our military, provide for our veterans, and bring our troops home.

"The President is demanding that we renew his blank check for a war without end. Despite the fact that the President persists in trying to score political points at the expense of our troops, congressional Democrats have repeatedly reached out in the spirit of cooperation. We renew our request to work with him to produce a bipartisan bill that provides our troops and our veterans with every penny they need, but in turn, demands accountability."

[bdamomma]

1. there have a been a few threads on this subject, but * is showing

his total ignorance and arrogance not only towards the Congress but towards us.

[paparush]

2. War without end... He just summarized the NeoCon platform...

Blank checks and war without end...NeoCon staples.

Accountability... NeoCon contagion.