Did you know under Clinton Republicans voted to cut off funds to support the troops?

Question

And GW Bush said "Victory means exit strategy and it's important for the President to explain to us what the exit strategy is."

http://uspolitics.einnews.com/article.php?nid=253193

Sen Tom DeLay said "You can support the troops and not the President."

Answer 1

You are acting shocked at the stinking hypocrisy of the Repugnicans. I hope you know you are going to get slammed for pointing out that they are a bunch of sleazy hypocrites, but then it was a Democratic President so to them, that was okay.

Answer 2

Kelly, the truth is, I'm very glad that these debates are happening. It's ALWAYS good that, when one side is involved in conflict, the other side wants accountability. It only makes sense.

For the record, I thought that McConnell (A fellow Kentuckian) was way out of line dipping into something he knew nothing about. The KLA was the problem and not the solution. Clinton's military advisors knew that, too.

It's possible to support the troops and not the President. If people don't like the way the war is being run, however, they need to address it with the Generals. They are the ones telling Bush how to fight.

Answer 3

I too am glad that this happens that one side checks the other. How ever in this situation with out the funding we have you would find the death toll much hire, its keeping our troops safe and in that example, Clintons stratagy as writen in the article was for air strikes only. The importance behind the current funding is to keep the troops safe. And thats why it keeps passing. You can support the troops and not the president and so far its being done but you cant say the situation is the same the quotes are out of context.

Answer 4

Did you read the bill? What pork did you find besides the 5 BILLION dollars for the IMF? What about the "cash for clunkers" also known as "cash for the auto industry" appropriation? Yaaaay Democrats...more spending at our expense. "Then why for the past nine years have Republicans all over the country accused Democrats of voting "against the troops" when they simply voted for the Democrat version of war-funding bills instead of the Republican versions? You see, the point is the hypocrisy of the Republican party." ...and by your own admission, the hypocrisy in the Democratic Party. Backfire.

Answer 5

Your not helping side of your argument here.
Yes we all know they voted to cut off funds to the troops.
It is what liberals do.

I will give the Republicans credit though, they had the proverbial brass balls to actually put up a vote for it.
Dems wont even do that. But again its not about repubs and Dems, its about Liberals and conservatives.
There are allot of Liberals in the republican party.
Sad to say there are very few conservatives in the Democrat party.

And I know this will upset allot of people, but George W. Bush is a LIBERAL.

Funny thing when libs throw out something Bush does, and then they say"Look what the conservatives are doing now".
We laugh at this. lol!

Answer 6

So?

The conflict, and its result:

The Yugoslav Wars were a series of violent conflicts in the territory of the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY) that took place between 1991 and 2001. They comprised two sets of successive wars affecting all of the six former Yugoslav republics. Alternative terms in use include the "War in the Balkans", or "War in (the former) Yugoslavia", "Wars of Yugoslav Secession", and the "Third Balkan War" (a short-lived term coined by British journalist Misha Glenny, alluding to the Balkan Wars of 1912–1913).

They were characterised by bitter ethnic conflicts between the peoples of the former Yugoslavia, mostly between Serbs on the one side and Croats, Bosniaks or Albanians on the other; but also between Bosniaks and Croats in Bosnia and Macedonians and Albanians in the Republic of Macedonia. The conflict had its roots in various underlying political, economic and cultural problems, as well as long-standing ethnic and religious tensions.

***The civil wars ended with much of the former Yugoslavia reduced to poverty, massive economic disruption and persistent instability across the territories where the worst fighting occurred. The wars were the bloodiest conflicts on European soil since the end of World War II. They were also the first conflicts since World War II to have been formally judged genocidal in character and many key individual participants were subsequently charged with war crimes. The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) was established by the United Nations to prosecute these crimes.

Answer 7

Thank you for pointing this out. It shows that, for the most part, we are no longer electing people but rather electing parties.
We need to stress to our elected officials that they are there because we the people voted them in not the party. If they are unwilling to do the will of the people, irregardless of the party line, then they will be replaced. The parties have grown too strong and now are leading our government rather than being a vehicle for officials to secure a political post.

Answer 8

Yep, but guess what after they did their Political Theater, they did vote to fund........But will the Nancy gang take it past posturing and really not support the troops.

Answer 9

Because during Clinton it was not a republican war. So why wouldn't republicans vote to cut the funding?

Now they got a republican war. Different story

Answer 10

I did know that because you have asked this question six or seven times already.

Answer 11

There was no congressional approval for action in Kosovo. Do you understand the difference?