Romney issued the following press release recently:

Governor Mitt Romney on Today's Iraq Vote

Friday, Mar 23, 2007

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: Kevin Madden (857) 288-6400

Boston, MA - Today, Governor Mitt Romney issued the following statement on the vote in the U.S. House of Representatives setting a timeline for withdrawal from Iraq:

"Capitol Hill Democrats have once again proved their inability to make Washington work in the right manner.

"The Democrat Congress' maneuver to micromanage our military efforts from their offices on Capitol Hill, along with the fiscally deplorable action of loading up a wartime spending bill with pork barrel earmarks unrelated to our military's fight against terrorism has provided the American people with yet another example of the Washington mindset run amok.

"Democrats in Washington have established a dangerous policy that essentially provides the enemy a planning calendar with a date certain surrender. By voting for such a policy, they have jeopardized our chances for success and endangered the mission of establishing democracy and defeating the terrorists in Iraq.

"All Americans want our troops out of Iraq, but we should never do so in a way that would jeopardize American security. Setting a public timeline without consideration of future circumstances, as they may exist at that time, is reckless and irresponsible.

"I urge President Bush to veto this measure and send a clear message to Washington Democrats that they must not and will not undermine the efforts of the United States military."

Romney's obviously right on with this statement. He's commented time and again how we don't have 535 Commanders-In-Cheif, but one. This deplorable action by the Democratic congress was also weak too. If they really did want to take a stand against the Iraq war (part of their apparent "mandate" from the last election cycle) they should do something stronger than tie the President's hands over a year from now. It's just a symbolic stand . . . and the pork barrel vote buying in this bill is simply politics at its worst. I knew it was a bad bill when all the reporters and commentators on CNN were bashing the bill and laughing at the recent bad leadership from the Democratic congress.

Good for Romney taking this stand and encouraging to veto this bad bill (which he will.)

Jeff Fuller