Bush Signs the Sacrifice the Troops Bill

Bush has signed the blank check the Democrats handed him yesterday into law, continuing the funds for a war that has no end in sight.

The best commentary on the bill that I have read comes from Air America's Laura Flanders the afternoon before the vote called the Sacrifice the Troops Bill.

This so-called “supplemental” isn’t about supporting troops; this blank-check bill is about sacrificing them.

At the current rate of fatalities, another 200-300 US troops will have been killed by the time the Congress votes on funding again. Ten times that many Iraqis will have perished. Squandering human lives and health for Exxon and Chevron’s wealth is not supporting the troops. It’s sacrificing them.

By voting more money for Bush’s war, the Congress will be sacrificing more lives to a President who has no plan, for a cause he can’t explain, at a cost that none of us can count.

The bill your Senator and Representative are likely to vote on today is about sacrificing lives in a country whose people want us gone, where our presence is only inflaming extremists and speeding on theocracy.

I heard Ted Kennedy on Ed Schultz over my lunch break saying our next chance at bringing our troops out of harms way will be in the Defense Authorization bill that will be debated sometime before the 4th of July break.