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Old 08-02-2007, 05:26 AM   #31
Eromereorybig

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What is extremely interesting, is that the Number One focus of the now majority party is anything else but IRAQ. Again, they ran & won on the strategy of "we need a change of course in Iraq". Over the last few weeks we have heard NOTHING from them on Iraq. Except, Nancy, after stating that she wanted to send more troops to Iraq to secure Bagdad, has now flip-flopped, stating she will opt to not fund any new troops.

That's is a much more important piece of news than whichever group decides to go to a football game.
I am searching for something that backs up your claim that Pelosi said she wanted to send more troops to Iraq but all I can find is the opposite. Please supply a link for that claim.

In issuing her warning, Pelosi made clear that her party supported boosting the overall military size “to protect the American people against any threats to our interests” and would not cut off money for troops already in Iraq.

But Bush will not get a blank check for an open-ended commitment there, she said. Any funding he seeks for additional forces in Iraq – Bush's expected plan could send as many as 20,000 more U.S. troops – will get the “harshest scrutiny.”

“The burden is on the president to justify any additional resources for a mission,” said Pelosi, D-Calif. “Congress is ready to use its constitutional authority of oversight to question what is the justification for this spending, what are the results we are receiving.”

“There's not a carte blanche, a blank check for him to do whatever he wishes there,” she added in an interview taped Saturday and broadcast Sunday. link You keep saying 'over the past few weeks' and "all last week" when referring to the Democrats, but they were just sworn in last Thursday. So you seem to be a bit confused about when they started their majority.
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