Friday, June 20, 2008

Iraq update


If Congress really wanted to, it could end the war in Iraq by refusing to fund it. And didn't the Democrats win Congress by promising to end it?

WASHINGTON (AFP) — The US House of Representatives approved Thursday a compromise bill to free up 162 billion dollars for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, stripped of a timetable to pull US troops out of Iraq.

Can anyone out there make sense of this? I sure can't.

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