Posted on 03/27/2007 2:52:00 PM PDT by HAL9000
The U.S. Senate on Tuesday endorsed a March 31, 2008, target date for withdrawing American combat troops from Iraq, moving Congress a step closer to a showdown with President George W. Bush over the war.By a vote of 50-48, the Senate defeated an amendment that would have stricken the withdrawal language from a $121.6 billion bill that mostly would fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. A final vote on the bill is expected later this week.
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If he's like his daddy don't count on it. Remember, "Read my lips. NO NEW TAXES" to which he promptly signed one of the largest tax increases in American history. His reason? America didn't give him a Republican congress.
Let's hope Jr. is more honorable than his daddy but the way I see it, he hasn't vetoed the measure until the ink has dried.
Please forgive my pessimism but I've learned to observe and remember the past and Jr. is a RINO!
Looks like Hagel and Nelson pulled a Benedict Arnold and changed their minds. Damn, what is this country coming to?
"What in God's name were they thinking, handing the reins of government over to the Socialists in a time of war? Sheer idiocy."
I hate to say it, but the current goings on in our government, make it clear that we are quickly becoming a country not worth defending, and certainly not the sacrifice of our youth. Where we end up, is anybodies guess. I would guess...doomed.
Wow, 40 years to the date from President Johnson's announcement. I think we know what playbook the Dems are using:
So, tonight, in the hope that this action will lead to early talks, I am taking the first step to deescalate the conflict. We are reducing-substantially reducing--the present level of hostilities.
And we are doing so unilaterally, and at once.
Tonight, I have ordered our aircraft and our naval vessels to make no attacks on North Vietnam, except in the area north of the demilitarized zone where the continuing enemy buildup directly threatens allied forward positions and where the movements of their troops and supplies are clearly related to that threat.
The area in which we are stopping our attacks includes almost 90 percent of North Vietnam's population, and most of its territory. Thus there will be no attacks around the principal populated areas, or in the food-producing areas of North Vietnam.
i believe that your pessimism is well founded.
That would have been the difference in the vote today.
Third party voters and stay at home non-voters contributed to the mess we are in now.
That is a fact.
Next stop ... CW2
And you're out of control.
Look at what happened to Israel and Judah in Old Testament times. Then plug in "USA" you'll see the path we're headed down.
Freaking cowards.
I'll second that
Probably
I'm sorry. Hagel is wrong on the war, but his lifetime ACU rating would make some of our "conservative" senators blush. He's not a democrat, not a liberal, and not likely to switch parties.
Hopefully we won't give him the chance, but will vote him out in a primary.
Yikes!
Mind your own business. You always butting in. Or else, get it deleted. That's seems to be what you do.
I guess you are one of the few that missed the public televised event that was highly reported on in print, on television, on the internet and here where he said he will promptly veto it if it clears the senate.
All the world terrorist organizations and regimes send their great thanks and congratulations for these 50 traitors.
When the President vetoes this treasonous and defeatist bill he should go on national TV and address the nation on why he is vetoing this bill and tell the democrats and their terrorists allies to go f*** themselves, we are not leaving Iraq before we crush terrorism there.
That ... my friend is the time to do it ...
So you're the one that always puked in the lunchroom on a hot day.
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