Posted on 12/16/2005 3:25:12 PM PST by ncountylee
WASHINGTON - Republicans pushed a resolution through the House of Representatives on Friday rejecting a timetable to pull U.S. troops from Iraq , the second time in recent weeks they have forced a vote on the issue.
Democrats said Republicans had used a resolution meant to congratulate Iraq for this week‘s elections as a means to try to divide Democrats and lash out at critics of President George W. Bush President George W. Bush‘s war policies.
The House passed the measure 279-109, with 59 Democrats joining Republicans to vote for it. Two Republicans and 32 Democrats voted present.
(Excerpt) Read more at leadingthecharge.com ...
and the plot thickens......
Which Republicans voted "present"?
Trying to learn who the 2 Republicans against were.
Leach and Paul. Paul gets goofy with foreign affairs votes on a regular basis. He's isolationist.
And Leach is just..??? a what???
Leach is against the war. He wants us out after elections.
I think they should have a similar resolution once per week until the election.
Ron Paul is a hero and a prescient one at that. He is not an "isolationist." He is a non-interventionist advocate of free trade. Like many freepers, he opposed the Kosovo adventure. Unlike them, he also opposes Republican Wilsonian wars.
Ron Paul is a great Congressman, he is consistant on Foreign Policy unlike the DemRATS who supported WMD claims and every military intervention that Clinton took. He opposes no matter who is President with the exception of Afghanistan I believe. He also consistantly votes that we shouldn't be in the UN.
Gack, spew, choke ...
Ahem, Ron Paul is a *Congressman*. Agree or disagree with his isolationist and minimalist positions (I like him on domestic policy, but know he is wrong to go with dems on foreign policy), he is no hero.
A *HERO* is someone who is willing to die for his country, and we have thousands of heros in Iraq now. And some of those heros are giving their life for the cause ... like:
"We also went to the other side of the Tigris River, to Sadr City, which was maybe the worst place to live in Saddam's time. A ghetto of 2 million Shiites in Baghdad that Saddam decided to let live and rot in their own refuse and sewage. As you can imagine, this abused population remains an angry lot. Even towards their liberators. Not as angry as before, but we still got a bunch of rocks hurled at our Humvee as we moved around the area with Lt. Col. Wood.
He was showing us his good works, supported by the locals, aimed at fixing up the infrastructure there. The bad side of this: He lost his life when his convoy ran over a roadside bomb a few months after we met him. Another guy trying to do good."
From:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,177381,00.html
Voting against the liberation of Iraq or voting against any other intevention to replace a dictatorship with democracy is not hero's stuff, or Maxine Waters would have a drawer-full of medals.
Roll call?
All I have are totals. 279-109 Paul and Leech abstained.
i had to do a bit of hunting to find a thread on this. I am surprised that I could not find anything in the rightside column and thought this would get a whole lot more attention than it has. I know a lot of stuff went down yesterday, but this is too important to be overlooked?
I search for this report in hopes finding out who voted present. I would think that the list would be immeditely available? Has anyone had luck in finding it?
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