My comments: This is what is supposed to be happening right now, which seems to require a full-scale occupation force.

So, there you have it. Objectively, the exception to the troop withdrawal provision is to keep the war going. Democrats voted for this war funding bill, while Republicans voted against it for all the wrong reasons. From now on, I say we refer to the U.S. House of Representatives as the U.S. House of Political Transvestites.

My Congresswoman is Shelley Berkley (D-NV). Her office told me that she had to vote for the $120 billion war funding bill to ensure the troops had "food to eat." That is a damnable lie. If Congress stopped passing war appropriations bills, the war would have to end, the troops would be brought home, and the MREs/body armor becomes an inconsequential issue.

Furthermore, as a disabled veteran myself, my intelligence is insulted by the name of the bill - i.e., U.S. Troops Readiness, Veterans' Health, and Iraq Accountability Act, 2007. There is more than a slight paradox in claiming accolades for throwing some money at the VA, while simultaneously funding a war policy that will create more disabled veterans. Getting help from the VA is akin to trying to win the lottery, and the more disabled veterans there are, the less likely it will be that any one of them will get help. Congressmen who say that veterans are underserved, but then keep voting to fund the war, are engaging in an act of deadly duplicity.

If this war funding bill passes the Senate, then peace activists will be in the unusual position of hoping that the "Decider" President Bush makes good on his veto threat. Hopefully, Americans who voted for the lipsticked neocons (aka, Democrats) in the erroneous belief that they would end the war will not be fooled again in 2008.

Source Notes:

(1) News articles:

Hillary Hawks Up War Talk

http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/nypost/access/298269481.html?did=298269481&FMT=ABS&FMTS=FT

Barack Obama open to more war against yet another country

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/printedition/chi-0409250111sep25,1,4555304.story?ctrack=1&cset=true

Senate votes on Defense Department appropriations bills:

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Mark served for four years on active duty in the Marine Corps infantry, and was a candidate for a municipal office in 2002. Mark has helped raise awareness of military and veterans' issues, by establishing No Anthrax Vaccine.  His commentary has been carried by such sites as AntiWar.com. He spends much of his free time reading the great minds of the Austrian school of economics, such as Murray Rothbard, Henry Hazlitt, Ludwig von Mises, et al.

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