Associated Press:
President Bush, urging Congress to craft a war spending bill quickly, offered no clues Saturday about whether he'll compromise over linking U.S. support to stability in Iraq.
Bush and Congress have been talking about how to agree on a bill to finance combat operations through September. The president demands the money without strings attached, but Democrats say Bush eventually must accept some conditions on the U.S. commitment to the unpopular war.
Here's the thing -- Bush wants the war, Democrats not so much. This puts Bush at an extreme disadvantage. He can either sign what he gets or effectively defund his own war. If there's anyone here who needs to talk about compromise, it's Bush -- clearly neither of the options are acceptable to him and they're all he's got.
So why is Bush being such a pigheaded fool about this? "If we were to leave Iraq before the government can defend itself, there would be a security vacuum in the country," AP quotes Bush as saying. "Extremists from all factions could compete to fill that vacuum, causing sectarian killing to multiply on a horrific scale."
How do we know that's what will happen? That's what happened after we removed Saddam Hussein from power...
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