Bush's Plans on Iraq Draw Criticism From Senators: "Senator Chuck Hagel of Nebraska complaining that the administration had done 'a miserable job of planning the post-Saddam Iraq.'
'They treated many in the Congress, most of the Congress, like a nuisance,' Mr. Hagel said in an interview on the CBS 'Early Show' this morning. "

Why should Congress give Bush the $87 Billion he has demanded? Just because he invaded a country on bogus grounds and stirred up a hornet's nest? Would you trust an idiot who comes and says, well, I misled you before, and now things haven't gone as I said they would, so would you just give me $87 Billion for the next year? Those are no grounds to give him a blank check. We need to know how long this outrageous military adventure is going to go on and how much more money will be needed in the future?

Bush acts as though this was good policy. But it's not. It's obscene. He took 2 years to get money to the states and cities in the US to protect against terrorism. But only a few months to attack Afghanistan. And he is spending almost 40 times as much to attack and occupy Iraq, which was not a terrorist threat to the US before he invaded. The fact that it is a "terrorist magnet" now is completely his fault.

We should be impeaching him, not giving him $87 Billion.
- posted by geoff @ #