Pelosi Says No To Funding Cutoff

ABC which will be live on GMA tomorrow.

Jan. 18, 2007 — There may be a growing battle between Congress and the president over the Iraq War strategy, but new House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said she won’t block funding for additional troops.

Below is an excerpt from an exclusive Diane Sawyer interview, in which Pelosi said that Democrats will not be responsible for putting the additional troops deployed to Iraq in additional harm’s way by blocking funds.

The complete interview will air tomorrow morning on “Good Morning America.”

Sawyer: As we sit here right now, 3,500 troops are moving in. That’s the first of the surge. It has begun. Fifty-one percent of the American people say they want Congress to stop the surge. Money is the method at hand to do that.

Are you going to move to cut off funding for troops going into Iraq as part of the surge?

Watch the full interview Friday, Jan. 19 on “Good Morning America” from 7 to 9 a.m.

Pelosi: Democrats will never cut off funding for our troops when they are in harm’s way.

It is, I think, very difficult for the president to sustain a war of this magnitude without the support of the American people and without the support of the Congress of the United States. That’s why Congress will vote to oppose the president’s escalation, from the standpoint of policy. We will have our disagreement.

Sawyer: But short of that — questions posed, resolutions passed — short of that, are you acquiescing in the surge if the pocketbook is the only other control mechanism?

Pelosi: The president knows that because the troops are in harm’s way, that we won’t cut off the resources. That’s why he’s moving so quickly to put them in harm’s way.

But we will hold the president accountable. He has to answer for his war.

Looks like it’s the repeal the AUMF, impeachment or nothing but more war.

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ending the war by any means necessary

I wonder how Speaker Pelosi plans to maintain a Democrat majority in Congress by ignoring the people who made that majority possible. Its very simple really. If the Democrats do not meet the mandates they were elected to achieve — namely ending the war in Iraq and proceeding with the investigations and Congressional actions that will bring to justice those in the Bush regime who have clearly violated Title 50, chapter 36, and Title 18, chapter 118 of Federal Acts — we on the left will likely bolt from our own party in 2008 and vote for any party but the Democrat party or just stay home on election day.

I would suggest Speaker Pelosi do the math and then ask herself how she can keep her majority with out us on the left.