Believe me, no one wants to see Bush dragged in chains before the ICJ for war crimes than I do, but if our only desire is to stick it to George W. Bush, then we're as wrong as he is. He's a madman, but he's a madman with power. I know it's hard to accept, but it is.

Let's look at options.

We could impeach him, but see our efforts to remove him fail in the Senate and have the MSM announce "Democrats Fail"
We could give him a bill that forces withdrawal and watch it get vetoed and watch our efforts to override the veto fail and against hear the MSM announce "Democrats Fail"
We could give him the same bill over and over again and watch option 2 occur over and over again
We could not give him any funding bill and wade in uncharted waters, watch the Pentagon further cut veterans health care, funding for equipment, and other things necessary for our troops as he will no doubt keep them in the middle of the Iraqi Civil War and watch the MSM announce "Democrats cut funding for troops" While I think this is the best option, we will no doubt spend the next year defending our decision to do it against inevitable attacks from the right and pro-military center who will see this option as Democrats caring more about beating the President than making sure our troops have what they need and as of yet, haven't gotten even with Republican funding bills...something we promised to do last year. We may win, but the odds are against us. Much like the Gingrich vs. Clinton budget battle in 1995 where the people wanted spending to be curtailed, but not if it meant their kids can't go to the Statue of Liberty or government employees are getting laid off, people want this war to end, but not if it means the already dismal treatment of soldiers will get worse.
Unless we have 50-60 Republicans backing us, the war WILL NOT end. We can cut funding, impeach, make points that will make us all happy because we beat the President, but the war will continue.

Face it, this is a hostage situation and the President is holding the troops hostage. The first thing you do as a hostage negotiator is admit the power lies with the hostage taker. you can have all the guns and tanks and helicopters in the world, but at that moment, the hostage taker has the power and you negotiate to take that power away. You don't send in an army of armed officers into the building! Like I said in a comment earlier, the President has a gun to the head of our troops and is threatening to shoot if Nancy Pelosi takes one step closer, and we're mad she's not sending in the NYPD screaming and wielding rifles.

And because she's not, we're giving up and handing the country back OVER to the hostage takers? Beating madmen with power takes time, takes patience, and means we're going to lose, sometimes fairly often.

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Believe me, no one wants to see Bush dragged in chains before the ICJ for war crimes than I do, but if our only desire is to stick it to George W. Bush, then we're as wrong as he is. He's a madman, but he's a madman with power. I know it's hard to accept, but it is.

Let's look at options.

1. We could impeach him, but see our efforts to remove him fail in the Senate and have the MSM announce "Democrats Fail"

2. We could give him a bill that forces withdrawal and watch it get vetoed and watch our efforts to override the veto fail and against hear the MSM announce "Democrats Fail"

3. We could give him the same bill over and over again and watch option 2 occur over and over again

4. We could not give him any funding bill and wade in uncharted waters, watch the Pentagon further cut veterans health care, funding for equipment, and other things necessary for our troops as he will no doubt keep them in the middle of the Iraqi Civil War and watch the MSM announce "Democrats cut funding for troops" While I think this is the best option, we will no doubt spend the next year defending our decision to do it against inevitable attacks from the right and pro-military center who will see this option as Democrats caring more about beating the President than making sure our troops have what they need and as of yet, haven't gotten even with Republican funding bills...something we promised to do last year. We may win, but the odds are against us. Much like the Gingrich vs. Clinton budget battle in 1995 where the people wanted spending to be curtailed, but not if it meant their kids can't go to the Statue of Liberty or government employees are getting laid off, people want this war to end, but not if it means the already dismal treatment of soldiers will get worse.

Unless we have 50-60 Republicans backing us, the war WILL NOT end. We can cut funding, impeach, make points that will make us all happy because we beat the President, but the war will continue.

Face it, this is a hostage situation and the President is holding the troops hostage. The first thing you do as a hostage negotiator is admit the power lies with the hostage taker. you can have all the guns and tanks and helicopters in the world, but at that moment, the hostage taker has the power and you negotiate to take that power away. You don't send in an army of armed officers into the building! Like I said in a comment earlier, the President has a gun to the head of our troops and is threatening to shoot if Nancy Pelosi takes one step closer, and we're mad she's not sending in the NYPD screaming and wielding rifles.

And because she's not, we're giving up and handing the country back OVER to the hostage takers? Beating madmen with power takes time, takes patience, and means we're going to lose, sometimes fairly often.