Bush policies blocked as US mood on Iraq sours (Independant, UK)

[rodeodance]

and the brits have lovely headlines of our demise also.
curdles mild soured milk from BuchCo at the wheel.


http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=647371

> Bush policies blocked as US mood on Iraq sours

> By Rupert Cornwell in Washington
>
> 17 June 2005
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> As American and Iraqi casualties on the ground mount relentlessly, President George Bush is in growing political trouble, with Republicans as well as Democrats questioning his handling of a war that has never been less popular here.
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> In the most visible protest, the veteran Democratic congressman John Conyers organised a forum on the so-called "Downing Street Memo", the July 2002 British Government document indicating that the Bush administration had already made up its mind to invade Iraq, and that intelligence was being "fixed" to fit that policy.
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> Six weeks after it was leaked in the British press, the memo has belatedly become a hot topic in Washington. Mr Conyers was to present a petition from more than 100 of his Democratic colleagues in the House, signed by 500,000 people, demanding that Mr Bush explain himself.
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> The White House has haughtily brushed aside this criticism, saying the memo contains nothing new, and again dismissing charges that the intelligence process was politically manipulated. But the administration may find it more difficult to deal with bipartisan demands for an exit timetable for the 140,000 US troops in Iraq.

[MichiganVote]

1. Its the sulk and pout routine

We have to give them tools...to dig their hole deeper.

[SaveAmerica]

2. That is a sweet, sweet article, in a nutshell it outlines the unravelling

of BushCo. Here's some more;


The White House had hoped that Iraq would fade as an issue after January's elections. This, it believed, would allow it to focus on Mr Bush's domestic goals of social security and tax reform.

But in the past month alone, 80 US soldiers and more than 700 Iraqis have died and the Pentagon admits that the violence is as bad as a year ago. Even some of its allies blame the White House for not telling the truth about the extent of the insurgency. "We always accentuated the positive and never prepared the public for the worst," Senator Lindsay Graham, a South Carolina Republican, said.

The President's signature policy - the campaign to part-privatise social security - has hit a brick wall. "Exit Policy on Social Security is Sought," was a Washington Post headline, above a report explaining how senior Republicans were urging the White House to quietly drop the measure, since it had no hope of passing.

Other Bush policies are also under attack. In a rare act of defiance, the Republican-led House voted by 238 to 187 to scrap a provision of the Patriot Act, which allows the FBI to check library and bookstore records in anti-terrorism inquiries. The President vows to veto any such change, just as he promises to "stay the course" on Iraq, and to press ahead with social security reform. But the line is growing more difficult to hold.

Last night, Senate Democrats planned to block for a second time a floor vote to confirm John Bolton as the next US ambassador to the United Nations, until the White House releases more information on its embattled nominee.Other Republicans are demanding closure of the Guantanamo Bay prison, although the White House says it is vital for security.

[Miss Chybil]

3. I'm having a hard time holding my breath for any of this. Stonewalling

has worked so well for this administration thus far. Why should it change now? Although, I am beginning to get a teeny, tiny bit hopeful...

[amber dog democrat]

4. The key thing is the erosion of support.

The Chimp is in trouble. Lets see how he breaks out of what is beginning to be a downward spiral. I honestly think the Chimp is too dumb to know how much things are spinning out of control. Mind you, this is just the beginning, but he is well into a tipping point.

I want to see lots of his pals and handlers pulled under from the suction. We either have one hell of a terra event, or he convinces the American Sheeple the Repugs are to be trusted. LIke I said, Chimpy is in trouble.

[Doctor_J]

5. Besides SS, which of his disasters have not been unleashed on the world?

:shrug:

[Eloriel]

6. 500,000 people is a lot of people to ignore

Hard to hide.

[Carolab]

7. And did you hear that Brit at the hearing today?

He said there is a UK group in Parliament that is doing something similar to Conyers & company.

[Tiggeroshii]

8. I think our mood has always been sour, but I guess it is sour-ing.... GOOD

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