Bush gets his Iraq funding

[Psycho4Bud]

WASHINGTONâ??Congress approved a compromise war-funding bill stripped of troop-withdrawal deadlines today as President Bush warned Americans to brace for a "bloody" August in Iraq leading up to a crucial assessment of the war in September.
After months of Democratic pledges to force a timetable for bringing U.S. troops home, the measure passed the Senate on an 80-14 vote shortly after the House voted 280-142 to back it.
The Columbus Dispatch : Bush gets his Iraq funding

This vote isn't "just barely" passing but an overwhelming majority.

I dedicate this lil' song for all you folks that voted Democrat in "06"
[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxqYsELmSu8[/YOUTUBE]

Have good one!:s4:

Psycho4Bud Reviewed by Psycho4Bud on 05-25-2007. Bush gets his Iraq funding WASHINGTONâ??Congress approved a compromise war-funding bill stripped of troop-withdrawal deadlines today as President Bush warned Americans to brace for a "bloody" August in Iraq leading up to a crucial assessment of the war in September. After months of Democratic pledges to force a timetable for bringing U.S. troops home, the measure passed the Senate on an 80-14 vote shortly after the House voted 280-142 to back it. The Columbus Dispatch : Bush gets his Iraq funding This vote isn't Rating: 5

[Gigliozzi]

Good. I was pulling for this myself.

It's a pity the newly declassified information indeed linking bin Laden to al-Zarqawi - proving the former had tasked the latter to set up and organize cells in IRAQ (yes, Iraq, the supposed "no connection to al-Qaeda" land) with the purpose of attacking the U.S. (yes, the United States, not just U.S. sites in Iraq, but the North American country itself) - is not going to get more media attention. Scratch that, it might, but people don't read or watch the news, so it will go right over their heads. For shame.

Thank you, Psycho4Bud, for your thread. That being said, sir, I see the entity that your flag next to "country" represents as part of the problem.

:s4:

[Man Beast]

I feel for the guys and gals in the Armed Forces of the US and it's contributing allies, it's hard to believe enough in this war to fight for it and difficult to find unbiased facts and truths.

Bush must either have a very personal vendetta or has been strongly convinced that this 'war' will reduce or prevent wars and acts of terror. Politics really aren't my thing anyway, more into philosophy.

[Psycho4Bud]

Thank you, Psycho4Bud, for your thread. That being said, sir, I see the entity that your flag next to "country" represents as part of the problem.

:s4:

Well I'd like to start with a welcome to you and Man Beast to the forums!:thumbsup: As for the flags.....I post the U.S. flag in politics for obvious reasons and the U.N. flag is due to me being a moderator in here. Seems that there are times when this place needs a "Peacekeeping Force"...lol.

Personally speaking, I would LOVE to see us kick the U.N. right the hell out of the U.S.. It's a crooked system that is good for nothing more than passing resolutions that countries laugh at.

Have a good one!:s4:

[fishman3811]

OMG more neo-cons spewing out truthless facts like the link between Iraq and AL-QAEDA ....YEAH after America invaded they had ties but not before the war some people just never learn do they P4B??

[fishman3811]

Nice vid P4B are you going to let the fat lady sing when the repukes get their ass kicked in the next pres election???

[Psycho4Bud]

Sabah Khodada was a captain in the Iraqi army from 1982 to 1992. He worked at what he describes as a highly secret terrorist training camp at Salman Pak (see Khodada's hand-drawn map of the camp), an area south of Baghdad.

What kind of training went on, and who was being trained?

Training is majorly on terrorism. They would be trained on assassinations, kidnapping, hijacking of airplanes, hijacking of buses, public buses, hijacking of trains and all other kinds of operations related to terrorism.
PBS - frontline: gunning for saddam: interviews: sabah khodada

Saddam HAD links..........not no more!:thumbsup:

Well I've heard of putting blinders on a horse but I guess Donkeys wear them too.

Have a good one!:s4:

[Psycho4Bud]

Nice vid P4B are you going to let the fat lady sing when the repukes get their ass kicked in the next pres election???

Promises in the Dark...........LMAO!

Have a good one!:s4:

[Gigliozzi]

Why, thank you, Psycho4Bud, for the welcome (<bow>), and a toast to Man Beast's debut as well. I have been keeping up with these forums for a few months now, but have only recently made up my mind to become a member of this community, in part - perhaps selfishly, I will admit - due to a legal quandary I got myself into for which I was hoping I could get some counsel (see my post in "Legal"). But I'm glad I finally got around to registering for one reason or another, and I'm happy to be here among you people.

As far as Fishman's all-too-popular misbelief is concerned, I would have it in me to write twenty pages worth of threads arguing against it, but I'll settle for jotting down just a handful of additional facts in order to keep Mr. Khodada's lone interview-excerpt some company:

- Photographs taken in 2000 show Nawaf al-Hazmi, Khalid al-Midhar and Salem al-Hazmi and Tawfiz bin Atash at a meeting with Ahmed Hikmat Shakir, an Iraqi intelligence agent. Al-Midhar and the al-Hazmi brothers went on to take part in the 9/11 hijackings, and bin Atash went on to plan the bombing of the USS Cole.
- Then-Secretary of State Colin Powell made public, before the U.N. Security Council on February 6, 2003, evidence that bin Laden met with representatives of Iraq's Special Security Organization (at the time run by Qusay Hussein) on at least eight different occasions.
- In 1998, Saddam vowed to aid Al Qaeda in the area of "weapons development." Writes Stephen Hayes on the Weekly Standard of June 28, 2004: "The following year, according to 9/11 Commission Staff Statement 15, bin Laden took the Iraqis up on their pledge. Farouk al-Hijazi (an Iraqi intelligence officer) told his interrogators in May 2003 that bin Laden had specifically requested [from Iraq] Chinese-manufactured anti-ship limpet mines as well as training camps in Iraq."
- Abdul Rahman Yasin (look him up) was given a house and a monthly salary by Saddam's regime once he returned to Iraq in 1993.
- This one, in my view, should do it for anyone: Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was working out of Iraq long before the coalition intervention. When he was wounded by U.S. forces in Afghanistan in May 2002, he went on to be treated at the Olympic hospital in Baghdad, at the time run by Uday Hussein. He began setting up training camps in northern Iraq immediately after his recovery. The U.S. asked Iraq to hand him over on two different occasions. Saddam refused to both times. (Source: section, which has yet to be disproved, of "Deeply Troubling Evidence on Iraq," Powell's case before the U.N. Security Council.)

This is getting way too long, even for the standards of a forum titled "Politics." For the sake of the reader's patience, I will stop here, but without first assuring that there is much, much more to be read on the issue.

[fishman3811]

Boy somebody has been reading the weekly standard too much lol those so called training terrorist camps in Iraq were training grounds for their counter terrorist units of the Iraqi Intelligence Service .You see in the mid 80s Islamic terrorists were routinely hijacking aircraft.In 1986 an Iraqi airliner was seized by pro-Iranian extremists so they needed to train counter terrorist units.Even the Senate Intelligence Committee reached similar conclusions,describing the Salem Pak facility was there to train officers for counterterrorism.But i guess the Senate committee is wrong and the weekly standard is right lol give me a break......Even the 9/11 commission has stated that Iraq had no links to Al Quade but i guess their wrong too and the weekly standard is right.Even the great GWB has said their is no connection between 9/11 and Iraq.Saddam Hussein hated terrorist groups because he couldnt controll them and they were dangerous.Anybody that he couldnt control he didnt want anything to do with them hence the dictator part of his regime