Posted on 11/18/2005 8:52:21 PM PST by Para-Ord.45
The House on Friday overwhelmingly rejected calls for an immediate troop withdrawal from Iraq, a vote engineered by the Republicans that was intended to fail. Democrats derided the vote as a political stunt.
"Our troops have become the enemy. We need to change direction in Iraq," said Rep. John Murtha of Pennsylvania, a Democratic hawk whose call a day earlier for pulling out troops sparked a nasty, personal debate over the war.
The House voted 403-3 to reject a nonbinding resolution calling for an immediate troop withdrawal.
"We want to make sure that we support our troops that are fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan. We will not retreat," Speaker Dennis Hastert, R- Ill., said as the GOP leadership pushed the issue to a vote over the protest of Democrats.
It was the second time in less than a week that President Bush's Iraq policy stirred heated debate in Congress. On Tuesday, the Senate defeated a Democratic push for Bush to lay out a timetable for withdrawal.
Murtha, a 73-year-old Marine veteran decorated for combat service in Vietnam, issued his call for a troop withdrawal at a news conference on Thursday. In little more than 24 hours, Hastert and Republicans decided to put the question to the House.
Democrats said it was a political stunt and quickly decided to vote against it in an attempt to drain it of significance.
"A disgrace," declared House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. "The rankest of politics and the absence of any sense of shame," added Rep. Steny Hoyer of Maryland, the No. 2 House Democrat.
"These toxic parasites would try anything against their host country... "
Well put and accurate. They don't realize that it would kill them too.
Ah yes, when the shoe's on the other foot the Dems start moaning and complaining that it "ain't fair." Of course they have no problem when it came to the "Bush Lied About WMDs" B.S.
"Rep pubbie Sam Johnson Kicked dem arse & rocked with the GOP closing statement."
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I agree. He was great!
Yeah, he was very classy!
you my freepin friend have nailed it.
my theory as well.
Cheers,
knews hound
http://knewshound.blogspot.com/
Next, the GOP should draft a resolution calling for diplomatic relations with Castro. Vote that down and force the RATS to go on the record against their Hollywood commie lovers.
Then, submit a resolution to overturn the protection of marriage act. Force the RATS to go on record against or for gay marriage.
There are all kinds of things you can do this with:
- Raising gas taxes
- Slashing the defense budget
- Mandatory service in Americorps
- Banning all parental notification for abortion
- Forced registration of all firearms
- Outlaw SUVs
This thing could be the gift that keeps on giving.
When the Democrats are that angry you know you've done something right.
Unlike McCain, Sam Johnson is a former Vietnam POW with guts, honor, and love of his country!
Leni
Murtha (who was the floor manager for the yes side) brilliantly votes against his own idea. Just goes to show that Democrats would rather have the issue of the war than end it.
I agree. Having the audacity to actually express a dissenting opinion in this country...how horrible!
Yes. They lose either way. If they ahd voted against it, they would be undermining the troops, and it's nonbinding anyway. Furthermore, it would alienate a lot of middle American voters.
OTOH, by voting for it, they simply negate their own complaints about the vote, show themselves for the gutless hypocrites they are, and alienate the Cindy Jihad/Michael Smoore/Code Pinko left that controls the Dimmycrap party.
And McCain doesn't love his country because...?
A sham platform from a sham party populated with shameless bureaucrats.
'And McCain doesn't love his country because...?'
Good question. After what he's been through, you think he would.
I question the statement, not McCain's love for America.
Around Maryland, he's known as Steny Horror. What an empty suit he is. In fact, empty would fill the suit better than Steny.
Don't sugarcoat it, tell us what you really think.
You are absolutely correct BTW, even if a bit too restrained in your epiphets.
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