[texianyankee]

I was able to witness Murtha speak before the first vote and he was not crying. He was somewhat jovial, in fact.

I fell asleep before the second round of voting, so I dont know if Murtha & the others got up to make another round of speeches.

Another classic - Jim McDermott got up to speak and he started talking about how Arabs dont want to sign a piece of paper - they settle differences another way. He started going on and on about some story/example.......I would like to hear someone give a good accounting of McDermott's speech.

[trooprally]

When all was said and done last night Murtha Voted NAY!
This was a ploy by the Dem's now they have to put up or SHUT-UP!
It took Sen Sam Johnson to set the record not to pull out.
He was in the Air force 29 years he was a POW . That was the deciding vote Hooray for Johnson!

[GottaLuvAkitas1]

"I fell asleep before the second round of voting, so I dont know if Murtha & the others got up to make another round of speeches."

I too fell asleep. I was so excited all after noon and thn I fell asleep.
Hubby just gave me the low down on the Show Down. LOL

Who were the 3 that voted for it?

[Spokane]

It was weird. McDermott waved his arms around and told a story of how two Arab brothers got married and relocated to villages separated by 6 miles. One of the brothers wives had three kids and the other had none. The one who was barren was ridiculed and threw herself down a well. Arab tradition apparently says that the village who lost the wife could take revenge on the other village. Instead they gave the other village twenty thousand dollars and told them to keep it for twenty years. After twenty years they brought the money back, and now the young men are marrying across the villages again. It was weird.

He tried to show how Arabs are capable of handling their own squabbles, by using a non-sensical event that shouldn't have been the basis for a squabble in the first place. I think he made the case for even more intervention.