The war bills

Now that Senate Democrats have defeated the Thuglicans' effort to strip the Iraq supplemental appropriation bill of deadlines and look well on their way to passing the bill, the question is will they have the guts to stick to their guns when the going gets rough? We know that Bush is going to veto the bill, and nobody thinks there's a chance a overriding the veto. The Thuglicans think they can intimidate the Dems to go back to square one and vote out a "clean" bill with no strings attached by accusing the Dems of failing to fund the war.

It seems to me that the Dems should be screaming from the ramparts that it is Bush who vetoed the war funding, not the Dems. The Dems just gave him more funds than he asked for. The right strategy, it seems to me, is to bring back another bill with deadlines - possibly with more support than before, and continue to do this until Bush is either forced to negotiate or forced to stop the war altogether.

If Bush leaves the troops out there to die without ammo or food just to avoid negotiating with Democrats, then he should be tried for treason and shot.