Is Congress overstepping its constitutional powers and infringing on President Bush’s powers as commander-in-chief?
1. Is Congress blocking funding for our troops in Iraq? • No, Congress is giving everything our troops need. The supplemental funding legislation passed by both houses of Congress provides taxpayers’ dollars to arm and equip our troops. • Congress goes one step further to offer a new strategy that is worthy of our troops’ sacrifices—a strategy that will make Americans safer at home and abroad. • The best way to support our troops is to get the policy right—something President Bush has failed to do repeatedly in the four years since we invaded Iraq. • Congress is exercising its constitutional authority by providing funds for the troops and carrying out the will of the American people by acting to put an end to President Bush’s quagmire in Iraq. • Congress is ripping up the blank check that the Bush administration has offered to Iraq’s leaders and offering a new path to get our troops out of Iraq’s civil war. • In order to get our country’s Iraq policy back on track, we need to take back
