The Democrats have introducted some fucking bill. It says:

Requires a transition in the mission of US forces in Iraq from primarily combat to: force protection and diplomatic protection; limited support to Iraqi security forces; and targeted counter-terrorism operations…

So unless Bush agrees to have The Troops stop doing combat stuff and start doing stuff that involves… other kinds of military stuff that don’t count as combat? Unless Bush does that, Reid and Pelosi won’t give him hundreds of billions of dollars to continue paying for our imperial genocidal occupation of Iraq. Well, because it’s not imperial genocidal occupation unless The Troops are Combat Troops.

That is wrong. The occupation of Iraq is evil. Criminal. Genocidal. No, don’t deny it. Don’t quibble over legal definitions of genocide. Don’t say our intentions are basically good. Don’t. Endless war in the Middle East is the official policy of the United States. The Democrats, when they can be bothered to pretend to oppose that policy, propose such inspiring alternatives as slightly scaled down endless war.

Force protection means killing and destruction. Force protection? Self-defense is an act of aggression when you’re part of an invading and occupying force. Supporting Iraqi security forces means killing and destruction. Targeted counter-terrorism operations mean killing and destruction.

Killing. Shooting. Bombing. Destroying lives and livelihoods. Whether they kill more or less, whether they kill for one reason or another, it doesn’t matter. They are killing and killing and killing, and the Democrats are happy to let them keep on killing under a slightly obfuscated version of the same pretense we’ve heard from the Republicans. Terror, Support The Troops, Terror, Support The Troops, Terror.

Of course Bush won’t sign the fucking bill if it gets passed. If he did, he’d attach a signing statement explaining that he doesn’t have to do what it says on account of his Constitutional role as Commander In Chief Of The Whole World mysteriously voids all the parts of the Constitution that appear to place limits on executive power, and the Democrats would pretend he hadn’t done so. But he won’t sign it anyway, and when the moment of truth comes, the Democrats will cave and Bush will get all the money he wants so he can buy more toy soldiers to play with. They know Bush will probably have to hand his toys over to them in 2009.