Dick Durbin: No More Funding Iraq War Without Restrictions
QuestionGirl September 7th, 2007 - 8:28 pmDick Durbin didn’t blow the whistle when he should have, in the lead up to the war. I lost all respect for the guy when I found out about that. It’d take a major effort on his part to get us out of Iraq for me to regain any respect for him.
The No. 2 Democrat in the U.S. Senate said on Friday he could no longer vote for funding the war in Iraq unless restrictions were attached that would begin winding down American involvement there.
“This Congress can’t give President (George W.) Bush another blank check for Iraq,” said Assistant Majority Leader Dick Durbin, who has always opposed the war but until now voted to fund it.
“I can’t support an open-ended appropriation which allows this president to continue this failed policy,” he said in a speech at the left-leaning Center for National Policy.
Durbin, from Illinois, said he and Democratic Sen. Russ Feingold of Wisconsin were working on limits that could be attached to the next war funding bill, such as limiting troops to conducting counterterrorism operations and training Iraqi security forces.
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September 7th, 2007 at 9:02 pm
“such as limiting troops to conducting counter terrorism operations and training Iraqi security forces”
Sorry. Sounds to me like an early caving-in. Everybody, including Durbin, knows Bush does as he wants to. The ONLY thing to stop the madness is to say no to funding the war - period!