I hope voters are taking notice. Republicans need to help with getting the troops out. Can't believe that they are still playing politics. With mine and my fellow Marines life's.

impeach Bush, Cheney, throw them out they cost and stealing money and cost too many lives both americans and other
people. Don't wait do it now.

December 15 2008.... By that time how many more soldiers will be dead??????

More "nonsense" from our 110th Do Nothing Democrat Congress with the lowest approval ratings in the history of this great nation. And the Dems say vote for us again in November 2008......PLEASE !!!!!!!!!!! If this country goes another year with nothing but political lynchings, hate, and divide from Dem clueless leaders like Harry and Nancy......then shame of us voters.

I agree "Shame on the Voters" (for re-electing George W. Bush is 2004)! What were they thinking?

Allen Ridge - if you don't vote for Democrats, then you must be going to vote for Republicans. The Republicans and Bush have obstructed anything getting done in this congress and their candidates won't talk about healthcare and won't get us out of Iraq either. There's a great divide in this country. There's too many ignorant people who think Democrats are all about bad values or for abortion or for gays. You cannot paint all Democrats with that broad brush. It just ain't true!

Maybe you people forgot that after the WEAK efforts of Bill Clinton we were attacked by terrorist and that Iraq continued to threaten. Bush has prevented numerous attacks and the world is getting safer by the day, because of him and Cheney. What do you think would happen if we removed all the troops tomorrow...The US protect many areas of the world: Europe, Korea and the Pacific. I know you all hate republicans, but is that worth the cost of a real war spiraling out of control? or massive terrorist attack? or the death of millions? Do all liberal really have no regard for human life...example after the pull out from Vietnam millions died in Cambodia...do you think Jane Fonda, John Kerry and their like realize they killed those people. Would you have fought the Nazis? Give me some history where the US didn't help people that turned out well...or maybe your far-left teacher thinks that communists did such a good job in Russia and China we should elect Hillary and her village.

Americans have had enough of this loser but let’s face facts; Bushie will never bring the troops home so long as he holds the office he is so not qualified to hold. That job will be for the next President. Inauguration Day will be our new Independence Day!

Allen Ridge: Shame on YOU! They are TRYING to pass the bill. What can you do when you can't get the votes? Blame the Republicans not voting for this bill-not the Dems.

If you voted for George W. Bush in 2000, you are forgiven. If you re-elected him in 2004, you should question just how smart you think you are.

I feel sorry for you. You are part of the delusional 23% of Americans that still think that Iraq had something to do with 911. See, here's where you are wrong Because our enemies were in AFGANISTAN, not Iraq. Noone had a problem with us going into Afganistan. The prez is acting like Afganistan and Iraq are the same war. THey are not.

Nancy Pelosi, needs to stand firm now, If This funding bill gets Veto'ed then dont give him any more money period! Only thing happening in Iraq is our Soldiers are dying and look at all the money that has been spent for the War.We could use that money to help people.Please list all the people's names who voted against this bill so we can make sure not to vote for them next Elections.You Politicians, I dont think you see how alot of us Americans are starting to see, how Ignorant you really are.I believe after this War America is going to see a big change in how we vote.

Furthermore, Iraq's ambitions for nuclear proliferation were destroyed when Israel bombed them in 81. Clinton also bombed them continuously during his presidency and pretty much had them incapacitated and contained. Suddam was all talk and no action. Iraq might have been bad to some of its own people-however they posed NO threat to American soil whatsoever. It was never, nor will it ever be, the goal to "liberate" them. Bush might try to muddy the preface of the war by changing it now that faulty intelligence shows there were no WMD's and he thinks we're buying it. The only people buying it are people like you. Had he not dropped the ball in Afgtanistan, OBL would not be alive, and Al Queda wouldn't be spread now to Pakistan.

Nancy is looking to continue her stellar 0 for 40 record of anti-War legislation?

As the war drags on and deaths pile up, it becomes increasingly evident that the Republicans never cared about a justifiable reason for being in Iraq. They have to keep blocking efforts to get the troops home, long after we’ve seen the quagmire nature of this occupation. Therefore untruths have had to continually re-invented in order to create
new reasons to stay. I don’t see near as many little American flags appeared on the antennas of bloated SUV’s, but there are still a lot of right wingers who are willfully ignorant of how much this war is costing the American public. They continue to to smear anyone who doesn’t follow the White House party line. These happily ignore all the economic damage being done to our country with no discernible rewards for staying over there in Iraq. We see the White House shills and the Tokyo-Rose-Republican-Owned-Lamestream-Media keep moving the goal posts in order to justify never ending the war, in spite of there being no benefit for continuing it outside of a few neighborhoods in Baghdad being a little better off today than before because some Sunni warlords turned against Al-Qaeda. But by insisting on more waste and loss of life the “roadblock Republicans” in both houses of Congress think we will somehow benefit from playing political shell games with an assemblage of warlords whose alliances keep shifting and no one can define victory. There is no victory possible in a guerilla war against our occupation. In staying over there, all we do get out of it is failure to deal with urgent problems here at home. I guess Iraq means more to the Republicans than their own country’s wellbeing. Talk about who the traitors are and who the patriots are. The Republicans have the treason-patriot thing backwards and need to look in the mirror to find the encouragement for terrorism in their failed policies. Let’s face it, Iraq is a no-longer-disguised, failed land-oil grab trying to secure an oil monopoly in a tinderbox region.

What a recruitment poster the US military has, inviting new inductees into an overstretched overstretched, bewildered “volunteer” (more like legally taken captive) military fighting for God-knows-what with almost zero idea of their own chances of coming out of that mess alive, even. And this is all becoming increasingly clear that what we're actually fighting for is so that .a Commander in Chief can shore up his wretched legacy instead of caring about the ongoing loss of American life.
How can anyone be happy with the decision of Bush/Petraeus to squander our future with more of the same?

Shame on us for playing party politics instead of working for the good of the nation. As long as Democrats and Republicans do nothing but oppose the other we will continue to fall apart as a nation. OBL won’t have to destroy America, we are doing it to ourselves. We live in the now, never learning from history or planning for the future. Only today’s inter-party squabble counts.
The reasons we went into Iraq are irrelevant now, we are there. The reason OBL and al Qaeda hate us doesn’t matter. They do. OBL has publicly stated that he will continue to attack America until we abandon democracy and accept an Islamic government. If we pull out now they will simply follow our troops home and continue the fight. I hope the do attack America in force, maybe then we will fight the enemy instead of each other. The nation united in WW2, we won. Ignored Korea and fought to a stalemate. We argued among ourselves about Vietnam and lost. We learn nothing from history.
American troops are spread around the world protecting South Korea, Japan and other places at great expense to the American people. Those troops should be brought home to protect the United States, but we won’t do that. We will continue to protect other lands and pay them for the privilege until we fall apart just as Rome did. We will continue to get involved in other people’s battles then surrender and go home liked whipped bullies. We learn nothing, we see no future, no past, just today’s party politics.
Yes we should be ashamed of ourselves.

The withdrawal has already started.

By Christmas, some 3,000 American troops will return home from Iraq after achieving remarkable success in our fight against al Qaeda. Under General Petraeus’ strategy, our troops are routing al Qaeda in Iraq, improving security for the Iraqi people, and laying the foundation for critical political reconciliation in that country.

And how is Congress welcoming them back? By passing yet another politically-motivated measure that cuts off funding for those continuing to serve our nation in Iraq and hamstrings the commanders who are leading them to victory. This measure will never be signed into law, and it represents yet another failure for Democratic leaders intent on putting politics before accomplishment.

JL: well put. You nailed it perfectly. Royce: This is about party politics. Repubs refuse to do anything about the war-even those that have seen the light. And you are false: They will not follow us home. That is a fallacy Bush has used to sell the war. Iraq is in the middle of a civil war. We need to get the heck out of there. Meanwhile Bush is bitc4hing about 22 billion more HERE to fund healthcare and education. The Republicans do deserve their bashing.

You decry lack of unity as the reason we will fall prey to Al Qaeda. Have you learned nothing in the last seven years? The Iraq War has been a great
recruitment tool and propaganda victory for Al-Qaeda in the eyss of the general populaces of the Middle East. Yet you continue to cite the tired old lie that "if we don't go to Iraq and fight them, we will have to fight them over here. Al Qaeda is no longer even a central player in the Iraq insurgency. It is homegrown Shiite and Sunni warlords vying for who will control the place and the majority of Iraqis still wanting US troops OUT of their country.
Practicing “party lockstep” with the White House means more to you Republicans than your own country’s coming economic collapse due to hemmhorraging money on this war. Talk about who the traitors are and who the patriots are. The Republicans have the treason-patriot thing backwards and need to look in the mirror to find the encouragement for terrorism in their failed policies. Let’s face it, Iraq is a no-longer-disguised, failed land-oil grab trying to secure an oil monopoly in a tinderbox region.

carl: What the heck do you define as
"victory" there? There's no end in sight. Afganistan is where our 911 attackers were located, not IRaq. Did you forget history? The faulty intelligence. The civil war there now. And the withdrawl is a fallacy too. THe 3000 troops you are refering to is just bringing back levels pre-surge level. It's not a reduction at all!