A PORTRAIT IN REPUBLICAN HYPOCRISY-- C.W. BILL YOUNG, UNDERMINING U.S. TROOPS IN IRAQ, JUST LIKE HE DID AT WALTER REED

Like many Americans, it's physically difficult for me to listen to George Bush's defensive, whiny, passive-aggressive yowling these days. It's a really ugly sound-- like fingernails on a chalkboard-- regardless of the topic. I don't think "Bush fatigue" even begins to describe it. And nothing I do hear from him pisses me off more than his twisted Rovian talking points about how the Democratic Congressional leadership is trying to micromanage the war instead of letting "the men in uniform" do it. The hypocrisy drips from this creature's every pore. Every single time a professional military officer tried warning Bush or Cheney or Rumsfeld that their incompetent harebrained schemes were nonstarters, they were fired and their careers destroyed.

Today one of the worst Bush Regime asslickers, a worthless, honorless rubber stamp who should be driven from office by patriots in his Florida district, repeated the same line of garbage. We've come across right wing loon C.W. Bill Young before-- when it turned out that he made the conscious decision to let wounded American soldiers lay in vermin infested rooms at Walter Reed rather than do his job and embarrass the Regime. Today this sleazy apologist for Bush and Cheney is using more twisted logic to put forward the right-wing meme in favor of endless war.

The Army Times is reporting that Young is whining that Congress shouldn't manage the conduct of war.

Rep. C.W. “Bill” Young, R-Fla., said catastrophe always follows when civilians turn a deaf ear to their military officers.

In the 2003 run-up to the war, Young said in an interview, administration officials dismissed a top Army officer’s estimate that securing Iraq would probably require several hundred thousand troops.

“I just don’t think that it’s a good idea for us here in the Congress to try to manage the conduct of the war,” Young, a military appropriations expert, told his colleagues during a meeting Monday.

So Young thinks Congress should just abdicate it's responsibility and let Bush's failed policies spin further out of control, the same way he abdicated his own responsibilities to wounded soldiers at Water Reed? Bush and Cheney-- two of the least competent elected officials to ever get control of a military force-- haven't a clue how to handle the war they started in Iraq. It is Congress' job to get us out of the mess these maniacs have dragged us into. Young should be tossed onto history's trash heap at the first opportunity for being a shameful partisan enabler for these two criminals while Bush's puppet regime in Iraq falls apart and the increasingly anti-American insurgency goes, violently, from bad to worse.


UPDATE: DOES THIS SOUND LIKE A BUCKLE TO YOU?

In about an hour I'll be on a conference call with the House Leadership and maybe I should wait before I write about this. So just let me quote the CongressDaily:

House and Senate negotiators approved a $124.2 billion war supplemental spending bill Monday that includes a "goal" of withdrawing combat troops from Iraq by April 1, 2008, and troop readiness standards that could be waived by the president.

No comment... for now.