Read Pelosi's statement about Bush's latest threat to VETO the upcoming military funding bill.  This bill no only funds our men and women who bravely put themselves in harms way, but also funds treatment for those injured after they come home.

This guy just kills me!!!!

News From Speaker Nancy Pelosi 

Contact: Brendan Daly/Nadeam Elshami, 202-226-7616
 
 
Saturday, March 10, 2007
 
 
 
Pelosi Statement on Bush Veto Threat of Military Funding Bill 
 

Washington, D.C. -- Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued the following statement today on President Bush's threat to veto the U.S. Troop Readiness, Veterans' Health, and Iraq Accountability Act:
 

"President Bush’s Iraq policies weaken our military’s readiness, dishonor our nation’s promises to our veterans, and fail to hold the Iraqi government accountable for overdue reforms.
 

"By threatening to veto the House's military funding bill, the President is walking away from his promise to the American people. The President has vowed to veto a bill that contains his own reform benchmarks for performance by the Iraqi government, our Defense Department’s own standards for troop readiness, and America's promise to our veterans.
 

"With his veto threat, the President offers only an open-ended commitment to a war without end that dangerously ignores the repeated warnings of military leaders, including the commander in Iraq, General Petraeus, who declared in Baghdad this week that the conflict cannot be resolved militarily. 
 

"The House of Representatives will soon have a chance to choose a new direction for the American people.  The bill the President dismisses out of hand will measure the Iraqi government's actions by the standards Mr. Bush himself set, conforms deployment of our troops to existing military standards for readiness, and provides  badly needed help to an overburdened military and veterans’ medical system wracked by scandal."
 

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