December 3, 2007 at 11:20:05

Bush Will Take Everything Congress Will Allow Him in Iraq

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It is the president, himself, who is threatening, and has put at risk our nation's defenses with his squandering of resources and manpower in Iraq. It is the president, himself, who is now threatening to cannibalize necessary elements of our national security to further his unsupported defense of his dubious Iraqi prize. His republicans in Congress and on the presidential campaign trail are also threatening our nation's defenses in their refusal to rebuke Bush for continuing to force our soldiers to fight and die for an Iraqi regime which has no ambition greater than the defense of its own U.S. enabled position of contrived authority.

Bush has openly signaled his intention to stage a quiet coup of sorts - within the liberating bounds of his assumed presidency - over the most controlling lever of constitutional authority those we elect to Congress have over the Executive's ability to wage war; their ability to provide or withhold money. How Congress reacts to that defiance may well be the determining factor in the progress and success of the administration's (and their republican lackeys in Congress') last major betrayal of our democracy.

Offering the administration a dime without a definite commitment to withdrawal all military forces from Iraq will ensure the occupation's perpetuation into infinity. Allowing them to unilaterally and indiscriminately lop off vulnerable civilian employees and other essential elements which support our national security to further their Iraq folly will permanently codify their reckless rape of our nation's defenses.

In a Rose Garden lecture today, used to highlight Bush's latest attempt at tyranny, the lame-duck militarist mocked the Democratic majority's maneuvers designed to thwart any more of his opportunistic, autocratic recess-appointments and complained (once again) that Congress wasn't listening to his handpicked generals.

"Instead of listening to the judgment of General Petraeus, they are threatening to withhold money he needs unless they can mandate an arbitrary date of withdrawal," Bush complained.

What's a lame-duck decider and his military cabal to do? Nothing that their decidedly hapless opposition in Congress won't allow.

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Ron Fullwood, is an activist from Columbia, Md. and the author of the book 'Power of Mischief' : Military Industry Executives are Making Bush Policy and the Country is Paying the Price

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