Bush Picked Today Of All Days To Veto An Iraq Spending Bill? The Four Year Anniversary of “Mission Accomplished”? Is there a method to the madness?

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Bush picked today of all days to veto the Iraq Spending Bill? Is there a method to the madness? I can’t believe it has been four years since “mission accomplished”. Will it ever end?

President Bush pauses in the Cross Hall of the White House as he speaks Tuesday, May 1, 2007, in Washington, after he vetoed legislation to pull U.S. troops out of Iraq in a historic showdown with Congress over whether the unpopular and costly war should end or escalate. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

It was a day of high political drama, falling on the fourth anniversary of Bush’s “Mission Accomplished” speech declaring that major combat operations had ended in Iraq.

In only the second veto of his presidency, Bush rejected legislation pushed by Democratic leaders that would require the first U.S. combat troops to be withdrawn by Oct. 1 with a goal of a complete pullout six months later.

“This is a prescription for chaos and confusion and we must not impose it on our troops,” Bush said in a nationally broadcast statement from the White House. He said the bill would “mandate a rigid and artificial deadline” for troop pullouts, and “it makes no sense to tell the enemy when you plan to start withdrawing.”

Democrats accused Bush of ignoring Americans’ desire to stop the war, which has claimed the lives of more than 3,350 members of the military. — read full article

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Check out this article with video at the Huffingtong Post Blog

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Here is an interesting little video (only a minute and twenty seconds)…