CNN:
The House of Representatives on Friday voted 218-212 to approve an emergency $124 billion supplemental war spending bill that includes a firm deadline -- August 31, 2008 -- for combat troops to leave Iraq.
Of course, the president lost no time in lying about the vote.
More than an hour after the vote, President Bush said that "a narrow majority in the House" had abdicated its responsibility to protect the troops, denouncing the vote as "political theater."
Bush said the vote had only one outcome: "It delays the delivery of vital resources for our troops."
See, here's the thing -- the pentagon isn't broke. It's not like this bill doesn't go through and troops wake up without bullets tomorrow. The war is fully funded.
But, if that were the case, who's fault would that be? The congress who took the money away or the president who left troops to die in Iraq, knowing they would be unfunded?
Despite insisting that the bill absolutely has to be passed or it will delay 'vital resources for our troops,' Bush has promised to veto the bill. You've got to love it when they shoot down their own argument.
