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.
'I question the statement, not McCain's love for America.'
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EXACTLY! The SOB voted against it!!!!!!! What in the heck is he doing? He is the idiot that proposed the whole thing! What a complete buffoon. The democrats are so completely lost it's sad, really. I'm sitting here watching a press conference that Harmon (the dem leader in the House intel committee) is giving now. She just talks about the stupidest crap over and over...abu ghraib, black prisons, blah blah blah. Are they even on this planet? Are they on drugs or something? Who's side are they on?
He was the best and gave the whole country a powerful reality check.
He is also called Spendy Horror!
What's amazing to me is how the Left has become so desperate that they've seem to have abandoned any attempt to hide what they're up to. No less an authority on the workings of the terrorist's mind than OBL said right out loud that it was our decision to cut and run in Somalia that convinced AQ that they could pull off a 9/11 type attack without fear of reprisals from us.
What more does the Left need to understand damage their shameful attacks are doing to endanger our fighting forces?
I love the irony that the Left is screaming 'foul' and calling the vote tonight a 'cheap political trick.' Well, if anyone should know cheap political trickery, it would certainly be them!
I guess...I am sure the guy is on top of it. I just cringe when I think we are missing opportunities to take these guys out. Put a bird up with some thermal imagery and we'll find em.
wrong thread, sorry.
It will be interesting to see the headlines tomorrow.....
I can't wait for the spin..
Murtha then voted against withdrawing the troops.
180 degrees within 24 hours must cause some kind of whiplash.
Just substitute any and every issue you care to name in place of "the war" and you have the entire Democrat party strategy for eternity...
Since when is voting for what you say you believe in "Rank" politics?.... Shame on you Nancy and "Steny"!
..i AM sugarcoating it...i cant say what i really think otherwise i'd be banned lmfao
How about that Pelosi! Great quarterbacking, huh? She's almost as good as Dean. She just lead her flock straight into this ambush, without even blinking!
Murtha ended his and the democrats' remarks in the debate with some nonsense about soldiers accusing him of being complicit with Bush in committing the tortures at Abu Grahib. Before that it was all horror stories about soldiers being mistreated by their branches of service, etc. Some message of support for the troops.
Please don't belittle McCain for his time as a POW. His politics may be chickensh@t, but unless you've been a POW or looked at the back end of a carrier at night, don't criticize his service in the Navy.
I am very surprised that both Lee and Jackson-Lee voted "no". And what's up with Jindal? He's been something of a disappointment.
I agree with you, sir, and thank you for putting into words my exact sentiments. It's truly time to identify the Democrats as the dangerous partisans they are. That is, they exalt Party loyalty above the national interest and call it "conscience".
What worthless, conniving, gutterhugging creeps!
I voted against the war before I voted for it?
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