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Date: January 13, 2007 10:44:27 AM PST
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Subject: Forget the Constitution -- Bush Says He's in Charge and
Congress Can't Stop Him
http://www.rawstory.com/news/2007/
Bush_tells_60_Minutes_no_matter_0113.html
Bush vows to 60 Minutes that
'no matter what Congress wants' surge is on
01/13/2007 @ 4:53 am
Filed by RAW STORY
In an interview set to air on this Sunday's 60 Minutes, President
George W. Bush vows to send an additional 21,500 troops to Iraq "no
matter what" the Democratic-controlled Congress tries to do.
"Do you believe as Commander in Chief you have the authority to put
the troops in there no matter what the Congress wants to do," 60
Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley asks Bush in the short clip
uploaded to the CBS News web site Friday night.
"I think I've got, in this situation, I do, yeah," Bush said.
"Now I fully understand they will," Bush continued, "they could try
to stop me from doing it, but, uh, I've made my decision and we're
going forward."
In an address to the nation on Wednesday, Bush announced his new
plan which calls for an increase in US troops to end ongoing
violence in the country, which many believe is either at or
approaching "civil war," with Iraqi civilian deaths tripling at the
end of 2006, according to one report.
The plan, nicknamed "surge" by the administration but referred to
as an "escalation" by most Democrats has drawn fire from both
parties, and Congressional members have threatened to cut funding –
though not for the troops that are already there.
"Rep. John Murtha, a Pennsylvania Democrat who oversees military
funding, said he will propose tying congressional approval of war
funds to shutting the Guantanamo Bay military prison in Cuba," the
Associated Press reports. "Other conditions he said he is
considering include not extending troop deployments and giving
soldiers and Marines more time to train between deployments."