Turning up the heat on Bush’s war policy in Iraq, yesterday the Democratic-controlled Senate in a House poll earned a marginal victory of two votes (50-48), which approved a time-limit of March 2008 for the withdrawal of US troops, if Bush’s strategy in Iraq does not show ‘significant results’. Baffled by the event, President Bush accusing congressional Democrats of meddling in Iraq war policy and military strategy restated his earlier swear to veto Iraq troop withdrawal, which he vowed last Friday after House of Representatives passed a spending bill giving a firm timeline to Bush administration for bringing the US troops back from Iraq. President Bush addressing the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association meeting in Washington asserted, The consequences of imposing such a specific and random date of withdrawal would be disastrous. Our enemies in Iraq would simply have to mark their calendars. They’d spend the months ahead plotting how to use their new safe haven once we were to leave. It makes no sense for politicians in Washington, D.C., to be dictating arbitrary timelines for our military commanders in a war zone 6,000 miles away. On the other, Harry Reid, the majority leader in the US Senate, expressing the determination of Democrats over the Spending Bill with Iraq timeline said, We would hope that the president understands how serious we are. Rather than making all the threats that he has, let’s work with him and see if he can give us some ideas how we can satisfy the wishes of a majority of the Senate, the majority of the House and move forward. Bush’s troubles over Iraq war policy are just multiplying, as he is not only facing criticism from outer world and the opposition in the US Senate, but within his on party. John McCain, Republican Senator and a 2008 presidential aspirant, claims that the Iraq war ‘was badly mismanaged’, whereas, Sen. Chuck Hagel who voted with Democrats is of the view: We have misunderstood, misread, misplanned and mismanaged our honorable intentions in Iraq with an arrogant self-delusion reminiscent of Vietnam. Bush may have restated his vow to veto the War Funding Bill, opposing Democrats sitting in the Congress in majority have left him unnerved on the crossroads, for if he veto the bill, he will have to face the fierce criticism of war critics for delaying the much needed support for the troops deployed in Iraq. Therefore, Bush don’t have other better option than just let the bill go uncontested without any delay.
May
20
