Congress to grill Bush staff on security plans

[True_Blue]

WASHINGTON — Congress, out of town while Iraq slipped toward rebellion, returns to work this week demanding that the Bush administration spell out plans for securing the increasingly chaotic country and handing power over to Iraqis in less than three months.

The Senate Armed Services Committee has called administration officials to testify Tuesday about how they plan to make Iraq safer and whether having 135,000 U.S. troops there is enough.

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee is holding three days of hearings looking at what needs to be done before the June 30 deadline for turning power over to a yet-to-be-identified provisional government.

Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Richard Lugar, R-Ind., and the top Democrat on the panel, Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware, have taken the administration to task for more than a year for what they regard as slipshod planning of the war, the occupation and reconstruction.
http://www.detnews.com/2004/politics/0404/19/a04-126888.htm

[freetobegay]

1. Will be the best whitewash ever!

eom

[burrowowl]

2. Plans, strategy!?

Congress knew damn good and well that the maladministration had no plans for Iraqi but to enrich Haliburton et al when they gave Boo$hie permission to do what he wanted.
Will 135,000 troops be enough, hell no? Is Congress going to reinstate the DRAFT?
BRING THEM HOME NOW, should be Congress' move by cutting off funding.

[alittlelark]

3. Whitewash..........I don't think so

many media people seem to have discovered that they do 'Indeed Have Teeth' over the last week. Which among them is brave enough to become the 'NEW Woodward'.

SOOOOOOOOOO many are chompin at the bit - but will their REPUG EDITORS allow it?

[dusty64]

4. Grill?

I'll just bet.