If it’s not time to pick the olive branches up and start beating the living crap out of Bush and the Republicans, I don’t know when it will be. No more nicey nicey. Screw Bush. Give him NOTHING. He refuses to listen to the will of the American people. Give him NO funds for the war. End it now. Concession time is OVER.

From the International Herald Tribune:

WASHINGTON: Democratic congressional leaders on Friday offered the first concessions in a fight with President George W. Bush over a U.S. spending bill for Iraq, but the White House turned them down.

The Democrats, in a meeting with Bush’s top aides, said they would strip from a war spending bill billions of dollars in domestic spending that the White House had opposed. They also pledged to give Bush authority to waive compliance with a timetable to pull combat troops out of Iraq.

But no agreement emerged.

What you’re NOT hearing on the news………….

18-May-2007 3 | US: 3 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US NAME NOT RELEASED YET Diyala province Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
US NAME NOT RELEASED YET Diyala province Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
US NAME NOT RELEASED YET Diyala province Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
17-May-2007 5 | US: 5 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US NAME NOT RELEASED YET Baghdad Hostile - hostile fire
US NAME NOT RELEASED YET Baghdad Hostile - hostile fire
US NAME NOT RELEASED YET Baghdad (South of) - Babil Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
US NAME NOT RELEASED YET Baghdad (South of) - Babil Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
US NAME NOT RELEASED YET Baghdad (South of) - Babil Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
14-May-2007 7 | US: 6 | UK: 0 | Other: 1
US Lance Corporal Jeffrey D. Walker Al Anbar Province Hostile - hostile fire
US Sergeant Thomas G. Wright enroute to Landstuhl Medical Center Non-hostile - illness
US Private 1st Class Nicholas S. Hartge Baghdad (nothern part) Hostile - hostile fire - IED, grenades
US Staff Sergeant John T. Self Baghdad (southern part) Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
DK Konstabel Henrik Nøbbe Basra - Basrah Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
US Sergeant Allen J. Dunckley Salman Pak - Babil Hostile - hostile fire - IED, small arms fire
US Sergeant Christopher N. Gonzalez Salman Pak - Babil Hostile - hostile fire - IED, small arms fire
13-May-2007 2 | US: 2 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US 1st Lieutenant Andrew J. Bacevich Salah Ad Din Province (died in Balad) Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
US Specialist Rhys W. Klasno Haditha - Anbar Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
12-May-2007 4 | US: 4 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US Sergeant Anthony J. Schober Mahmudiyah - Babil Hostile - hostile fire - ambush
US Private 1st Class Christopher E Murphy Mahmudiyah - Babil Hostile - hostile fire - ambush
US Sergeant 1st Class James David Connell Jr. Mahmudiyah - Babil Hostile - hostile fire - ambush
US Private 1st Class Daniel Courneya Mahmudiyah - Babil Hostile - hostile fire - ambush