Dems to cost layoffs at Defense

AFP:

US Defense Secretary Robert Gates Thursday decried a move by Congress to limit war funding for Iraq, saying it complicates the conduct of the war when US troops already are starting to leave.

The Democratic-led House of Representatives voted Wednesday to approve a 50 billion dollar war funding bill, only about a quarter of the funds requested by the administration.

The bill, which President George W. Bush has vowed to veto, included a timeline for an immediate withdrawal of US forces.

Gates argued the administration already has begun drawing down US troops in Iraq, and military commanders in Iraq have set forth a timetable for the withdrawal of five of 15 combat brigades by July.

"So the issue now really is about pacing. How fast do you change the mission? How fast do you draw down the troops?" he said.

"It seems to me that there ought to be some deference to those who are running the war, the generals, in terms of whether it's at the pace at which this draw-down should take place and based on the conditions on the ground," he said.

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He said the army is making preparations for furloughs of an estimated 200,000 civilian employees and defense contractors to free up money for operations.

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The Democrats should pay a political price for this irresponsible treatment of the troops and the war effort. It is just another example of why they should not be trusted with issues of national security. They were not elected to cut off funding for the war. One of the big lies of the last year has been their assertion that they were elected to end the war. It is an outrageous lie and they know it is a lie. In fact they would have lost seats in the 2006 election if they had campaigned on that issue. They ran as fast as they could from Karl Roves assertion that they would have a cut and run policy, and now that they have such a policy they make the bogus claim that they ran on it. For the 200,000 that get laid off they can think Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi for their cowardice in not standing up to fringe groups like MoveOn.

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