Dems Doom Iraq War Funding Bill

The Democrats knew what they were doing when they pushed through this bill.

They know that it is meaningless, pure political posturing. They doomed it to fail.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- House Democrats pushed through a $50 billion bill for the Iraq war Wednesday night that would require President Bush to start bringing troops home in coming weeks with a goal of ending combat by December 2008.
The legislation, passed 218-203, was largely a symbolic jab at Bush, who already has begun reducing force levels but opposes a congressionally mandated timetable on the war. And while the measure was unlikely to pass in the Senate—let alone overcome a presidential veto—Democrats said they wanted voters to know they weren't giving up.

"The fact is, we can no longer sustain the military deployment in Iraq," said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. "Staying there in the manner that we are there is no longer an option."

The White House pledged to veto the bill, and Republicans said they would back the president.

"In addition to infringing upon the president's constitutional authority as commander in chief, the bill would mandate a precipitous withdrawal of troops that could increase the probability that American troops would have to one day return to Iraq to confront an even more dangerous enemy," an administration statement said.

Is that all the Democrats can do, pass largely symbolic jabs at Bush?

This symbolism doesn't mean crap.

Are the anti-war, impeachment Leftist mobs going to be satisfied with this stuff?

Will symbolic moves appease them?

The Democrats are as impotent as the UN.