A Clean Bill

The President has charged Congress with delivering to him a clean bill for the supplemental funding of the "War on Terror." Seems he feels like he should be able to order up legislation like he's at Burger King: "hold the deadline, no pork projects, special orders don't upset us..."

I'm not sure that a bill for this funding without a deadline for troop withdrawal and without domestic funding measures is such a bad thing. How about this:

Whereas the United States of America states clearly that Saddam Hussein and the sovereign nation of Iraq had no participation in the events of 9/11...

and Whereas the United States of America states clearly that prior to our invasion of the sovereign nation of Iraq that Saddam Hussein, his government, and the country he ruled were not providing support to the terrorist network known as Al Qaeda...

and Whereas the United States of America states clearly that regardless of any earlier protestations claiming the sovereign nation of Iraq was in possession of weapons of mass destruction that we recognize there were none....

and Whereas the United States of America states clearly that regardless of any speech given by our President and any of his subordinates claiming that Iraqi agents sought to buy weapons grade nuclear material from Niger that we know those attempts never happened...

The congress of the United States of America authorizes this last supplemental funding bill for the maintenance of the military efforts currently underway in Iraq and Afghanistan. Any further funding of these efforts must be accomplished through the standard appropriations process and this congress states unequivocally that no other military operations are currently authorized.

There. No artificial time line. No partisan pork. All the funding he's asking for.

Sign it.