4th Anniversary of the War On Iraq Time Capsule: March 14, 2003
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On March 14, as Bush failed to win support from the U.N. Security Council, his congressional allies stifled debate back home. Still, new developments raised new questions about the cost of the conflict and the candor of the President.
U.N. Resolution Appears Doomed
A U.S.-backed U.N. Security Council resolution authorizing the war against Iraq appears doomed to fail, senior U.S. officials and foreign diplomats admitted it.
The admission came after U.S. officials repeated assertions - but no evidence - that they were within striking distance of reaching the necessary nine votes on the deeply divided Security Council.
After its defeat appeared imminent, the Bush administration reverse couse and said will delay or possibly call off the vote.
Congressional Republicans Won't Allow War Debate
A demand by U.S. Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass) and four other Democrats for a congressional debate over Iraq was denied by the Republican leadership.
The Democrats sent a letter to House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas) asking him to designate five Republicans to participate in a debate on the alternatives to going to war.
"Why shouldn't the House have a major debate on this?" Frank said yesterday. "It's very frustrating to people in a democracy, and wrong, not to have a debate."
Cost Estimates for War Rise
After what columnist Georgie Anne Geyer called "deceptive blarney on the part of the administration over the cost of this war,'' new figures emerged. The cost of only postwar reconstruction of Iraq will be at least $20 billion a year and will require the long-term deployment of 75,000 to 200,000 troops to prevent widespread instability and violence, according to a panel of high-level officials brought together by the Council on Foreign Relations.
The report concluded that President Bush failed "to fully describe to Congress and the American people the magnitude of the resources that will be required to meet the post-conflict needs."
Fear of Huge Deficit Causes Push For Smaller Tax Cut
Ohio Sen. George Voinovich joined a bipartisan group of senators who announced they would accept a tax cut no smaller and no larger than $ 350 billion over 10 years, signaling to Republican leaders they may have to scale back the President's proposed "economic growth" tax cut.
Voinovich and the others sent a letter that said: "With the international challenges our nation faces, including a possible military engagement with Iraq, continuing tension on the Korean Peninsula, and the ongoing war on terrorism, . . . we believe that any growth package that is enacted through reconciliation this year must be limited to $ 350 billion."
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U.N. Resolution Appears Doomed
A U.S.-backed U.N. Security Council resolution authorizing the war against Iraq appears doomed to fail, senior U.S. officials and foreign diplomats admitted it.
The admission came after U.S. officials repeated assertions - but no evidence - that they were within striking distance of reaching the necessary nine votes on the deeply divided Security Council.
After its defeat appeared imminent, the Bush administration reverse couse and said will delay or possibly call off the vote.
Congressional Republicans Won't Allow War Debate
A demand by U.S. Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass) and four other Democrats for a congressional debate over Iraq was denied by the Republican leadership.
The Democrats sent a letter to House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas) asking him to designate five Republicans to participate in a debate on the alternatives to going to war.
"Why shouldn't the House have a major debate on this?" Frank said yesterday. "It's very frustrating to people in a democracy, and wrong, not to have a debate."
Cost Estimates for War Rise
After what columnist Georgie Anne Geyer called "deceptive blarney on the part of the administration over the cost of this war,'' new figures emerged. The cost of only postwar reconstruction of Iraq will be at least $20 billion a year and will require the long-term deployment of 75,000 to 200,000 troops to prevent widespread instability and violence, according to a panel of high-level officials brought together by the Council on Foreign Relations.
The report concluded that President Bush failed "to fully describe to Congress and the American people the magnitude of the resources that will be required to meet the post-conflict needs."
Fear of Huge Deficit Causes Push For Smaller Tax Cut
Ohio Sen. George Voinovich joined a bipartisan group of senators who announced they would accept a tax cut no smaller and no larger than $ 350 billion over 10 years, signaling to Republican leaders they may have to scale back the President's proposed "economic growth" tax cut.
Voinovich and the others sent a letter that said: "With the international challenges our nation faces, including a possible military engagement with Iraq, continuing tension on the Korean Peninsula, and the ongoing war on terrorism, . . . we believe that any growth package that is enacted through reconciliation this year must be limited to $ 350 billion."
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