My Response to Rep. Slaughter

Rep. Louise Slaughter from my hometown of Buffalo posted on Daily Kos today explaining the vote on the Iraq supplemental funding bill today. It was an honest and mostly reasoned explanation, but it was not well received. One line stuck out, and, I think, whether Rep. Slaughter would agree or not, is the crux of the case:

As such, we had a choice. We could send Mr. Bush the same bill, or allow something to pass that wouldn't be vetoed. And we elected to let something pass - to let Republicans, if they so choose, fund their own war.

"Their own war" is being fought by people dying under no party affiliation. It's not a "Republican" war, it's an American war. And Bush should have been sent another bill with a deadline. It may have, as she said, not resulted in a quicker end to the war. But it may have. For now we have no hope that it will.

And: They might have criticized us!