The Democrats have never been in favour of the war in Iraq. Time and again they have been deciphered cropping up with new plans and reports that have lambasted the Bush administration. And now the Democrats have once more hatched a strategy to force the withdrawal of troop from Iraq sooner rather than later. Majority of the American were in favour of a retaliation to the 9/11 attacks and that’s what they got. But 6 years down the line and support for the war in Iraq has decimated to less than 50%. Yet the war goes on and the cost of maintaining the thousands of US troops stationed in the Middle East country goes on mounting. The Democrats now want to shift the burden of the cost of war from the federal reserves onto the Americans themselves. Advocated by the House Appropriations Committee Chairman Dave Obey and supported by Rep. Jack Murtha and Jim McGovern, the proposed measure plans to add 2% to the tax bills of low- and middle-income American taxpayers and 12-15% additional tax to higher-income taxpayers. It is still to be decided whether this additional tax is shaped into a draft or is structured as surtax. The Democrats say that this move is to let all Americans share the burden of the ongoing war in Iraq so as not to make the country slip deeper into debts. They say that such a move would secure the future generations from paying off the debts. But scratch the surface and you would come up with another angle. What the Democrats scheme to do with this proposed measure is to force the Bush administration to start pulling out of American troops from a constantly disintegrating Iraq. It is clear to them that the public would become ferocious should the measure be adopted and the Iraqi situation would become even more unpopular. Such a shrewd tactic is quite admirable indeed but could Mr. George W Bush come up with a counter-plan? Image Source: Visiting DC Source: CNN
