[Peace-discuss] Perfidious Democrats continue to fund war

[C. G. Estabrook]

[And yet some people think it will be different if we can just elect a Democrat 
president! --CGE]

	Published on Tuesday, June 17, 2008 by Reuters
	Democrats To Back Down on Iraq War Conditions
	by Richard Cowan

Democrats in the Congress, who came to power last year on a call to end the 
combat in Iraq, will soon give President George W. Bush the last war-funding 
bill of his presidency without any of the conditions they sought for withdrawing 
U.S. troops, congressional aides said on Monday.

Lawmakers are arranging to send Bush $165 billion in new money for the wars in 
Iraq and Afghanistan, enough to last for about a year and well beyond when Bush 
leaves office on January 20...

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/06/17/9701/