Posted on 06/18/2006 5:17:43 PM PDT by FairOpinion
The House on Friday voted 256-153 to support the military mission in Iraq
Forty-two Democrats bucked their leadership to join a virtually united Republican Party and declare that the United States must complete "the mission to create a sovereign, free, secure and united Iraq" without setting "an arbitrary date for the withdrawal or redeployment" of U.S. troops.
Three Republicans Reps. Ron Paul of Texas, John Duncan Jr. of Tennessee and Jim Leach of Iowa joined 149 Democrats and one independent to oppose the resolution. Three Democrats and two Republicans voted present in protest. Nineteen lawmakers did not vote.
"The American public deserves to hear how their elected leaders will respond to international terrorism and those enemies who seek to destroy our American way of life. Will we fight or will we retreat?" asked House Majority Leader John Boehner of Ohio. "Let me be clear: Those who say this is a war of choice are nothing more than wrong. This is a war of necessity."
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, of California, countered: "Republicans in Congress continue to try to mislead the American people by suggesting a link between the war in Iraq and the war on terror. They are distinct ... and efforts to portray one as part of the other are a disservice to the truth and to the men and women fighting in Baghdad, Kirkuk and Ramadi."
Rep. John Murtha of Pennsylvania, the hawkish Democrat who rocked Capitol Hill last year by calling for a rapid withdrawal of forces, said, "We've become the enemy. We've given a microphone to people like Zarqawi. We [war opponents] support the troops. It's the policy we don't support."
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"...by God I think he's got it"
Warning!!! The following graphic may cause cardiac arrest, bed sores, vomiting, diarreah, siezures; leading to violent death, or suicide.
You've been warned.
LOL
Paladin2 has an on-the-fritz keypad or something. He explained it the other day.
Speak for yourself Murtha
(Denny Crane: "Every one should carry a gun strapped to their waist. We need more - not less guns.")
...you got it! ...and just wait until the 2nd quarter earnings reports come out and the stock market takes off after earnings improve on a double-digit 10%+ year-over-year rate...pay no attention to that Fed Governor behind the curtain kiddies, June 30 rate hike? - Bah! Pay attention to the (lack of) real news - notice that there have been virtually NO earnings warnings...??? Can you say DOW 12, 13, 14,000??? before the mid-term elections?
Tom Delay's Texas gerrymandering stands; progress in Iraq; returning troops; and a absolutely BOOMING economy... this could turn out to be an historic non-win by the opposing party in the President's traditionally weakest (6th) year in U.S. history.
Reagan80
LOL, I've seen that one; as flotation he could keep a Rocket 88 seaworthy IMHO.
I'm going to take a wild guess and say his "o" key is stuck...
There's solutions available other than using the zero... you could cut and paste the "o" from somewhere and use it... you could use Charmap... replace it with a hyphen, s-rt -f like this... r, my favrite, simply leave it ut altgether, peple will understand what yu mean.
It's a problem with a programmable keyboard that doesn't like being hooked up to a bunch of mechinical KVM switches and gets visited by a viking kitty that likes to take walks over the keys. The "o" has been reprogrammed to be a TAB. 0 is very close to the "o" key and looks quite similar. I have a stack of used keyboards to substitute, but I'm lazy.
Please stop posting that pic of drunken joke of human.
It really makes me sick and its' truly disgusting. There goes my breakfast. Or, at least send a warning of some kind.
Thanks
GWB just recently awarded the Nation's Highest Civilian Honor to the Lady that has helped to lead these faithful patriots.
JOHN MURTHA: Former Marine and current enemy.
He infuriates me with his traitorous statements.
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