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A Hostage Situation: PAUL KRUGMAN - Iraq Funding + by PAUL KRUGMAN - THE NEW YORK TIMES Monday Apr 23rd, 2007 5:50 AM KRUGMAN: In response to a confrontation over financing for the Iraq surge, President Bush is threatening dire consequences for innocent bystanders. THE COMPLETE ARTICLE AND MORE --> OP-ED COLUMNIST A Hostage Situation By PAUL KRUGMAN Published: April 23, 2007 There are two ways to describe the confrontation between Congress and the Bush administration over funding for the Iraq surge. You can pretend that its a normal political dispute. Or you can see it for what it really is: a hostage situation, in which a beleaguered President Bush, barricaded in the White House, is threatening dire consequences for innocent bystanders the troops if his demands arent met. If this were a normal political dispute, Democrats in Congress would clearly hold the upper hand: by a huge margin, Americans say they want a timetable for withdrawal, and by a large margin they also say they trust Congress, not Mr. Bush, to do a better job handling the situation in Iraq. But this isnt a normal political dispute. Mr. Bush isnt really trying to win the argument on the merits. Hes just betting that the people outside the barricade care more than he does about the fate of those innocent bystanders. Whats at stake right now is the latest Iraq supplemental. Since the beginning, the administration has refused to put funding for the war in its regular budgets. Instead, it keeps saying, in effect: Whoops! Whaddya know, were running out of money. Give us another $87 billion. At one level, this is like the behavior of an irresponsible adolescent who repeatedly runs through his allowance, each time calling his parents to tell them hes broke and needs extra cash. ... ...Mr. Bushs refusal to face up to the failure of his Iraq adventure, his apparent determination to spend the rest of his term in denial, has become a clear and present danger to national security. --MORE-- http://mparent7777.blogspot.com/2007/04/hostage-situationpaul-krugman-iraq.html Labels: 'surge', Bush, Congress, defeat, Funds, GOP, Iraq, Iraq War Funds, New York Times, News, PAUL KRUGMAN, Politics, reality, war, White House Is Mainstream Corporate Media subverting the AIPAC Spy Trial? http://mparent7777.blogspot.com/2007/04/is-mainstream-corporate-media.html Cho Seung-hui and the Not So Secret School http://www.wakeupfromyourslumber.com/node/1320 Iraq Is the Ultimate Aphrodisiac: FRANK RICH - Iraq, the Larger Sin http://mparent7777-2.blogspot.com/2007/04/iraq-is-ultimate-aphrodisiac-frank-rich.html Juba the Sniper Legend haunting troops in Iraq http://mparent7777-2.blogspot.com/2007/04/juba-sniper-legend-haunting-troops-in.html John Walker Lindhs Buyers Remorse: ADAM LIPTAK http://mparent7777.blogspot.com/2007/04/john-walker-lindhs-buyers-remorse-adam.html And More http://mparent7777.blogspot.com/ http://mparent7777-2.blogspot.com/ http://mparent7777-3.blogspot.com/ http://www.wakeupfromyourslumber.com/blog/38 --------------------------------- Be smarter than spam. See how smart SpamGuard is at giving junk email the boot with the All-new Yahoo! Mail
