Barney Frank Wants All Troops Home From Iraq: 'What The Hell Are They Doing There?'

So where is Barney Frank taking this?  

This looks like "election conversion", which is second cousin to a US Supreme Court nominee having a "confirmation conversion".    

Is this all we can expect from Barney Frank?  Is this just this call to Obama to bring the troops home, in which case Obama will continue to ignore the situation, or is Frank going to do what's within his power to do as a UnitedStat­esCongress­man to end these illegal, criminal wars?

All we've seen from Democrats in Congress is a whole lotta diffuse talk, but no action.

Obama & Democrats ran on putting the wars on the budget, with no more supplemental emergency spending bills to pay for these wars.  Funding the wars through supplementals was how Bush & Cheney managed to avoid congressional oversight & public scrutiny.

After close to two years of controlling both Houses of Congress & the WhiteHouse, Democrats are continuing the funding of the wars through supplementals.  

What's significant about this?: 

When the funding of wars goes 'on budget', congressional committees & subcommittees then hold hearings & investigations into US policies, about US interests around the world, from which the UnitedState's overall foreign & military policies are derived.  That's how civilian-control over the US military takes place:  Through the citizens' chosen representatives choosing weapons systems & overseeing US military operations & installations, plans & policies, etc.

This doesn't happen with supplemental spending bills.  

The nature of them is, "It's an emergency, we're running out of money, give us $80 billion now (that's the magic sum, invariably $80 billion) or you won't be 'supporting the troops'...We'll talk about it later".  

"Later" doesn't happen.  

The $80 billion ploy is so the American people think they're always talking about the same $80 billion. 

I know, I know, "How is that possible that the average American wouldn't realize it's not the same $80 billion when it's year in& year out?"  The average American is just barely keeping it all together as it is & fighting for his life(style).

Committees in both Houses of Congress have either never begun investigations into fraud and abuse, or dropped investigations (both on what happened during the Bush administration and afterwards), yet Congress is doing no oversight, & thieving criminal private contractors are still being awarded government contracts.  

Congress didn't authorize any war against the Taliban, or nation-building in either Afghanistan or Iraq,  yet these wars continue.  After taking a nation to war with Iraq based on l!es (not just about Iraq having WMD, but Bush got the Authorization to Use Military Force in Iraq from Congress based on his assurances that it was only to bolster his 'bullying Saddam Hussein'-strategy, & that he would go back to the UN for its authorization & come back to Congress before he did anything -- Bush did neither), no legal basis exists for the US military remaining in either of those countries.

So, Barney, what else are you going to do?
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