Salazar: No more war funding without strategy change
By: The Associated Press11/16/2007
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- US Senator Ken Salazar, D-Colo., at a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, November 14, 2007. (Photo: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images)
DENVER
Colorado Democratic Senator Ken Salazar is opposing the Defense Department's request for additional funding for the war in Iraq.
Salazar has been, and continues to be, a member of a group of senators who have tried to avoid confrontation while seeking a fundamental change in strategy. He spoke Friday after he joined the Democrat majority in the Senate in rejecting the funding request.
Salazar said the Iraqi government has demonstrated no evidence of meaningful political change that would bring about the long-term reconciliation needed to end the war.
He noted that American commanders themselves believe there is no solution to the war, which as of Thursday had claimed the lives of 3,866 American soldiers, airmen, marines and sailors.
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Salazar posturing.
Salazar talks a good line. From supporting Alito and Roberts to supporting the 2006 Military Commissions Act, Salazar has consistently been an appeaser of the Bush Administration and the Republican right in the Congress. Ditto for his brother John in the House. This war funding saber rattling by the Democrats is all show with no SUBSTANCE. Bush will get his money. Salazar and his ilk will see to it. Let us who supported the Senator the first time around see to it he leaves the Senate in 2010.