Politics. It’s all a matter of timimg.
If President Bush was to give the go ahead today, that would start a clock ticking. The Military would have 60 days to fight before having to give a report to Congress, then Congress would have 30 days to study that report and decide if the fighting should continue.
It is May 16, 2008. So the first report would be due July 15th. The Cut and run crowd would go ballistic. Letters and E-mail would pour into Congressional offices. Impeachment proceedings would start about the 6th of June, dpending on what happened in the primaries. ALL funds would be cut off. ALL FUNDS. Not a dime would come out of Congress.
Congress would study the report they got on July the 15th for about 10 minutes, then Order all US troops out of Iraq AND Afghanistan. Immediately as in it’s a long walk if you miss the plane. President Bush would either order the troops home or be impeached within the week. Normal impeachment proceeding take about 6 months, but that is just because the Congress critters like watching Presidents squirm. No reason it can’t be done in a day if that is what the Congressional leadership wants. Any Republican that tried a filibuster would be committing professional suicide.
On the other hand, if President Bush waits until October, the timing works for him. An October start date means the 60 day report is due in Dec, rigth AFTER the Holiday recess of Congress. That means they can’t act on that report until mid Jaburary, or a week before the next President is sworn in.
The other good thing about an October start date is that it will be time for the Congress critters standing for re-election to go home to their voters and explain why they are voting for Iran instead of America. Not something any Congress critter wants to do.
So the timing is good anytime after about the middle of August, best in October and real bad before the End of July.
Remember how the moonbats feel about this. It’s not impossible that bombing Iran could start a civil war here in America. Very unlikly, but NOT impossible.
On a positive note, the Demonrats will have one bloody convention this summer. It will be a real hoot watching Code Pink in street battles against ANSWER, or the Sierra Club in a cage match against PETA. Ratings will be thru the roof. I can see the networks wanting to do it very year as a ‘reality show’. God knows nobody watches anything else on TV.
