The Senate has passed the Iraq funding bill with the withdrawal deadline in it. It's up to Bush to sign off on it. I can guarantee that if he doesn't, the Democrats (and a lot of Republicans) will be very vocal about him failing to support the soldiers in Iraq. It's up to him, now. He'll be the only person stopping those soldiers from getting the equipment they need if he doesn't sign the bill into law.

I have to admit, I feel like I should be feeling sorry for him. He's really between a rock and a hard place. Either he passes the withdrawal deadline or he fails the troops. I am sure that if I were a nicer person, I would be feeling sorry for him. But really, all I think is that it couldn't have happened to a better guy.:heh:

I was rather young during the gulf war. I don't remember much about it except that on the school bus we would say that Saddam Hussein really meant Sad, Dumb, and Insane. I know I learned that we got in the war because he had invaded kuwait and we were allies of kuwait so we had to help defend them. And we did and he promised not to invade anymore countries or else everyone would attack him again, and that was the end of it. When I got older, in junior high, we learned more about it. I was taught that we couldn't just go in and take out Saddam Hussein because he was a bad guy. We couldn't do that because if we did do that we didn't know what would happen. A even worse person could come into power, or there might end up being a civil war or something. And that would be irresponsible of us-- to get our people involved in another country's civil war, let alone to be the cause of it. I learned that that was what had happened with Vietnam, we had gotten involved in some other far off country's civil war, where we had no buisiness being. And that we had lost and it left a lot of people demoralized. When I got older I learned pretty much the safe things, in more detail. Then in college I took a class on the Vietnam war-- it reinforced how bad our decision to get involved was. I also took courses on World War I and II. (BTW I found it interesting to learn to perhaps if we had gotten involved in WWII earlier it might not have been as devastating as it was-- we might never have needed to drop the bomb.) A year after 9/11 I even took a class in middle eastern politics. I learned we had supported Iraq before when it was in conflict with Iran, because America was afraid of Iran. It seemed like a touch and go thing we had there. But no nuclear weapons were found. No link to 9/11 established. And I figured that given everything I had learned over the years we wouldn't want another Vietnam. I thought everybody learned the same things I had-- and my education was pretty basic too growing up. I guess not.