If the Congress is so Anti Iraq war, why dont they pull the troops out??

They don't have the authority. The President is Commander -in-Cheif of the military forces. Congress has no control over the military. They already approved the war, and cannot retract it.

Congress can, though, withhold funding for the war. Any money the President needs for the war needs to be approved by Congress.

Only the Commander In Chief and his officers, have the authority to order troop movements. Congress can only pass laws. This is the separation of powers.

Can you imagine what would happen if you ran a war by committee? Wait, that was called Viet Nam.

Congress knows that if they pull the troops out now, they

will have another cut and run situation the same as they

did in Vietnam where millions of people died and I don't think they want that to happen again. Then there will be more

terrorist attacks in this country and THAT IS A FACT and is not a scare tactic.

The Congress is afraid rightly I believe that the public will turn on them if they did. The public is one two faced fickle holier than thou bunch of *******. Even though this is what everbody has been wanting when it is done the rabble rousers on conservative radio and TV will characterize this move as some sort of treson or cowardice and sure enough the public will buy it hook line and sinker Americans are such suckers for big mouths with the flag wrapped around them. So the Dems will hold hearings and try to dredge up enough evidence so the conservatives who want out can give the Dems cover from conservative propagandist.

particularly, that's because of the BETRAYUS embarrassment that Reid is making an attempt to make the "phony soldier" assertion an argument. The Dems got here faraway from the Petreaus thoughts looking completely anti-militia. They insulted the militia by potential of their strikes against the final. So now, they are attempting to make themselves look outraged on behalf of the militia by potential of the meant average from Rush. yet now they simply look WORSE because of the fact they did no longer do their homework and unjustly publicly insulted Rush on the floor of the Senate. Rush has greater approval rankings between the militia than fairly plenty any senator, so as that replaced right into a great strategic mistake on the Libs' area. i'm loving seeing them squirm.

Good grief, its only been one week and you expect them to pass bills on important stuff like this already???

The fact is that they can potentially choke the war down by ramping down funding. The Federal deficit has been underreported from the beginning because all of the war funds have been approved as "emergency" measures and have been off-budget. Pelosi has said that going forward all funds will be done above board and transparent.

Let the wild rumpus start!

Because we're not finished.

You guys keep saying this war is lost and you're full of crap!

I'm here and KNOW that we can still win this thing and on a local level we ARE winning this thing.

It is my hope that the Democrats will realize that to lose would be a disgrace and that more pressure needs to be put on the military to win, not pull out!

Because there are too many of them profiting from this war!

Including Hiliary!!