That’s the unvarnished truth about what happened today in Washington. Here’s the AP’s take:

President Bush vetoed legislation to pull U.S. troops out of Iraq Tuesday night in a historic showdown with Congress over whether the unpopular and costly war should end or escalate. 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Bush rejected legislation pushed by Democratic leaders that would require the first U.S. combat troops to be withdrawn from Iraq by Oct. 1 with a goal of a complete pullout six months later.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.”

Of course, Sen. Reid and Nancy Pelosi didn’t take that sitting down:

“The president wants a blank check,” said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., moments after Bush’s appearance. “The Congress is not going to give it to him.” She said Congress would work with him to find common ground but added that there was “great distance” between them on Iraq.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Bush has an obligation to explain his plan for responsibly ending the war. “If the president thinks by vetoing this bill, he’ll stop us from working to change the direction of the war in Iraq, he is mistaken,” Reid said.

Of course, Pelosi isn’t above mischaracterizing President Bush’s request. She says that he’s asking for a blank check when the truth is that he’s asking for Democrats to give the troops a chance to win. As for Reid, I’m getting sick of him talking about President Bush not changing direction. That’s really euphemism for “President Bush won’t sign off on Democrats declaring defeat.”

Let’s ask a simple question regarding how people support the troops. How many Americans think that “the troops” want to lose the war they’ve been told to fight? Does anyone in their right mind think that even 1 percent of the troops don’t want to defeat AQI and the insurgents?

Let’s pose another question to Sen. Reid and Ms. Pelosi. Do they think that the terrorists currently in Iraq and Iran won’t see this retreat as the best recruiting tool that they’ve had in ages? Why would Pelosi and Reid think that our pulling out won’t totally destabilize the region?

The truth is that they aren’t thinking about those considerations. They’re doing this because Gen. George Soros is giving them their marching orders. The dirty little secret is that BCRA destroyed the parties and gave Soros control of the Democratic Party. If he says jump, Reid and Schumer, Pelosi and Emanuel better ask how high.

That’s why they’ve abandoned what I call the Lieberman Democrats. Soros hates sane-thinking liberals like Sen. Lieberman because they stand in the way of his agenda.

The key to understanding the Democrats’ agenda is in understanding that they’re merely mouthpieces for George Soros.

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Cross-posted at LetFreedomRingBlog

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