DEMOCRATS CONTINUE GAMES

In a bill that is obviously designed to continue the political games with troop funding, House Democrats have presented a bill that will fund the war only through July then consider releasing the remainder of the funds that the President has requested only AFTER looking at the funding once again before their August recess.

The bill which has drawn a VETO threat by the President still contains much of the pork spending that the original bill that Bush has already VETOED and only releases part of the funds necessary to fully support and supply the troops.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates stated that the Defense Department is not structured to appropriate funding on a temporary or limited basis. Additionally because of the short term nature of the funding proposal by the House many necessary equipment supplies could fall through the cracks when the funding is re-evaluated again in August.

This is once again another ploy by Democrats to attempt to micro-manage the war this time not by unconstitutional time lines which violate the Separation of Powers and usurp the authority of the Commander in Chief, but rather using funding as a steering measure to control war operations.

Politically they are also using this tactic to continually keep the American people stirred by re-hashing the same surrender and defeatists rhetoric that has been the hallmark of not only this Democrat lead Congress but Democrats as a whole over the last three years.

By funding the war on a limited basis they are using the media to continue to create negativity about the war and as an avenue to continue their attacks against the President. This tactic will be used to increase pressure to force a pull out and a surrender, which is the goal of the Democrats.

This tactic will also keep the enemy well informed of the political fight over the war which further emboldens them and assists their fight against American troops.

Constitutionally they have the authority to completely de-fund the war which would force a pull out. This they will not do because they also realize the tremendous backlash that it will cause from the American people who will see Democrats for who they are and understand that they truly do not support the war or the troops.

So Democrats continue with their slow bleed strategy which hinders operations, supply and deployment as commanders who do not know that the funding will be in place after July cannot issue orders to train and prepare units for deployments that are scheduled for September.

So much for Democrat claims of support for our troops and concern for our national security. Their continual actions playing political games with military funding proves that the opposite is true!

Ken Taylor