Okay, the "U.S. House sets deadline for pullout" thing

Okay, first, this piece from a couple of weeks ago, because a certain detail just caught my eye:

House Democratic leaders vowed Thursday to pass legislation setting a deadline of Sept. 1, 2008, for the withdrawal of U.S. combat troops from Iraq, a challenge to President Bush's war policy that drew a blunt veto threat in return.

Hey, wait a minute. Sept. 1, 2008 is my 37th birthday. They can't end the war on Sept. 1, 2008!...Who the hell decided the war had to end on Sept. 1, 2008, huh?! This whole thing is a plot against me, isn't it?!

Now on to the latest story:

...for Nancy Pelosi, House passage of legislation ordering troops home from Iraq next year was sweet victory.

"The American people have lost faith in the president's conduct of this war," said Pelosi, D-Calif. "The American people see the reality of the war, the president does not."

Just over an hour following the vote, Bush angrily accused Democrats of playing politics and renewed his promise to veto the spending legislation if it included their withdrawal timetable, despite administration claims the money is needed next month by troops.

I'm just going to assume the sheer head-turned-roundness of Bush "angrily accusing" anybody of playing politics is self evident, and move on to:

"These Democrats believe that the longer they can delay funding for our troops, the more likely they are to force me to accept restrictions on our commanders..."[Bush] said.

Yes. It certainly would suck if someone provided so little funds to the troops that, oh I don't know, we couldn't afford to buy them armor. And their parents had to raise money to provide it themselves as though the war were a church bazaar or something.

Or, if from the beginning we had forced our commanders to accept restrictions such as going into this war with fewer troops than they said they needed to win. Therefore making it impossible to win even if it were legal, right, and had no stink of shame attached to it whatsoever.

Yeah, whoever did that would certainly be deserving of our scorn.

Voting for the House bill were 216 Democrats and two Republicans -- Wayne Gilchrest of Maryland and Walter Jones of North Carolina. Of the 212 members who opposed it, 198 were Republicans and 14 were Democrats.

Absolutely no prizes for guessing from which state one of the Democrats who opposed the bill hails. If you have to think about it for even a minute...you obviously haven't been reading this blog long.