[SamAdams_Lite]

I can envision the election commercials already.

[ChicagoConservative27]

I'm sure the usual house commies/socialists voted to leave Iraq.

[YepYep]

I can't wait for the actual voting breakdown. Hooray for those 42 brave Democrats who voted FOR this non-binding resolution. This is a genuine point of substantial support for our troops in the field in this War on Global Islamo-Terrorists. Hooray for the voting populace of Iraq and for their newly formed government.

[RightWhale]

Good.

[The Blitherer]

This is great! In the GWOT, this is a great ideological victory for the US!

[Rummyfan]

In a 256-153 vote, the GOP-led House approved a nonbinding resolution that praises U.S. troops, labels the Iraq war part of the larger global fight against terrorism and says an "arbitrary date for the withdrawal or redeployment" of troops is not in the national interest.

I suppose it's necessary to smack the Dems with a 2-by-4 made of the obvious facts periodically.

[commish]

so, 256-153 in the house, 92-6 in the Senate. IOW, we have 159 names that have firmly placed themselves in the Traitor category.

[GRRRRR]

Nancy PeeLOUSY is "a grotesque mistake"...

The DEMS are uniquely positioned to achieve recto-cranial insertion with 100% effectiveness.

G

[slowhand520]

How can the Dems ever be taken seriously when discussing our country's defense? Talk about an implosion

[rightinthemiddle]

Does anyone have the names of those voting to pull out before we win?

[Carry_Okie]

The Democrats lose their big chance for more Killing Fields in Iraq.

If they ever win back the House, they'll cut off the money in a heartbeat.

[Da Mav]

................Yeas Nays PRES NV
Republican 214.....3.......2.......12
Democratic 42......149.....3.......7
Independent 1
TOTALS 256 153 5 19

Detailed roll call
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2006/roll288.xml

3 Repub nays that you want to know about
Duncan, Paul, Leach

[Republican Red]

Roll Call up now:

http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2006/roll288.xml

[Williams]

Could the article make any more efforts to "explain" the result from the dem viewpoint? It's gotten pretty sickening. Things happen that plainly are Bush administration victories, and the media is full of nonsense about how it isn't really a victory. I think they may have jumped the shark reporting on Zarqawi's death.

[george wythe]

Democrats denounced the debate and vote as a politically motivated charade, and several prominent Democrats joined Pelosi in saying they would vote against the measure because, they said, supporting it would affirm Bush's "failed policy" in Iraq.

Many Democrats in districts at play voted for the resolution. They knew that voting against it was a loser.

[moose2004]

Those 42 dems who rejected a timetable are now going to be political targets of the radical left moveon.org crowd. This is very good news for the Repubs in 06'.

[cake_crumb]

I'm not surprised. Pleased, yes. But not surprised. Nice margin of victory, but a little disappointing.

[MizSterious]

Ol' Nancy knows about "grotesque mistakes." Her plastic surgeon has made his share.

[michigander]

HRES 861 IH

109th CONGRESS

2d Session

H. RES. 861

Declaring that the United States will prevail in the Global War on Terror, the struggle to protect freedom from the terrorist adversary.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

June 12, 2006

Mr. HYDE submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on International Relations, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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RESOLUTION

Declaring that the United States will prevail in the Global War on Terror, the struggle to protect freedom from the terrorist adversary.

Whereas the United States and its allies are engaged in a Global War on Terror, a long and demanding struggle against an adversary that is driven by hatred of American values and that is committed to imposing, by the use of terror, its repressive ideology throughout the world;

Whereas for the past two decades, terrorists have used violence in a futile attempt to intimidate the United States;

Whereas it is essential to the security of the American people and to world security that the United States, together with its allies, take the battle to the terrorists and to those who provide them assistance;

Whereas the Taliban, Al Qaeda, and other terrorists failed to stop free elections in Afghanistan and the first popularly-elected President in that nation's history has taken office;

Whereas the continued determination of Afghanistan, the United States, and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization will be required to sustain a sovereign, free, and secure Afghanistan;

Whereas the steadfast resolve of the United States and its partners since September 11, 2001, helped persuade the government of Libya to surrender its weapons of mass destruction;

Whereas by early 2003 Saddam Hussein and his criminal, Ba'athist regime in Iraq, which had supported terrorists, constituted a threat against global peace and security and was in violation of mandatory United Nations Security Council Resolutions;

Whereas the mission of the United States and its Coalition partners, having removed Saddam Hussein and his regime from power, is to establish a sovereign, free, secure, and united Iraq at peace with its neighbors;

Whereas the terrorists have declared Iraq to be the central front in their war against all who oppose their ideology;

Whereas the Iraqi people, with the help of the United States and other Coalition partners, have formed a permanent, representative government under a newly ratified constitution;

Whereas the terrorists seek to destroy the new unity government because it threatens the terrorists' aspirations for Iraq and the broader Middle East;

Whereas United States Armed Forces, in coordination with Iraqi security forces and Coalition and other friendly forces, have scored impressive victories in Iraq including finding and killing the terrorist leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi;

Whereas Iraqi security forces are, over time, taking over from United States and Coalition forces a growing proportion of independent operations and increasingly lead the fight to secure Iraq;

Whereas the United States and Coalition servicemembers and civilians and the members of the Iraqi security forces and those assisting them who have made the ultimate sacrifice or been wounded in Iraq have done so nobly, in the cause of freedom; and

Whereas the United States and its Coalition partners will continue to support Iraq as part of the Global War on Terror: Now, therefore, be it

Resolved, That the House of Representatives--

(1) honors all those Americans who have taken an active part in the Global War on Terror, whether as first responders protecting the homeland, as servicemembers overseas, as diplomats and intelligence officers, or in other roles;

(2) honors the sacrifices of the United States Armed Forces and of partners in the Coalition, and of the Iraqis and Afghans who fight alongside them, especially those who have fallen or been wounded in the struggle, and honors as well the sacrifices of their families and of others who risk their lives to help defend freedom;

(3) declares that it is not in the national security interest of the United States to set an arbitrary date for the withdrawal or redeployment of United States Armed Forces from Iraq;

(4) declares that the United States is committed to the completion of the mission to create a sovereign, free, secure, and united Iraq;

(5) congratulates Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki and the Iraqi people on the courage they have shown by participating, in increasing millions, in the elections of 2005 and on the formation of the first government under Iraq's new constitution;

(6) calls upon the nations of the world to promote global peace and security by standing with the United States and other Coalition partners to support the efforts of the Iraqi and Afghan people to live in freedom; and

(7) declares that the United States will prevail in the Global War on Terror, the noble struggle to protect freedom from the terrorist adversary.

[Personal Responsibility]

I have to wonder if any of the Dems who claim our Iraq policy has failed have read the memo about how bad the war is going on the Al-Qaeda in Iraq side?