Senate votes to require Iraq withdrawals

AP ^ | April 26, 2007 | ANNE FLAHERTY

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WASHINGTON - A defiant Democratic-controlled Senate passed legislation Thursday that would require the start of troop withdrawals from Iraq by Oct. 1, propelling Congress toward a historic veto showdown with President Bush on the war.

The 51-46 vote was largely along party lines, and like House passage of the same bill a day earlier, fell far short of the two-thirds margin needed to overturn the president's threatened veto. Neverthe less, the legislation is the first binding challenge on the war that Democrats have managed to send to Bush since they reclaimed control of both houses of Congress in January.

[donnab]

excellent idea!!!!

[commonguymd]

Graham and McCain not voting. nice, just beautiful. Too busy not wanting to make the beautiful people mad......

[I see my hands]

To: EGO-CONS

Who's the enemy, now? Is it you?? Yes it is!

[RDTF]

McCain missed the vote?!

[Miss Didi]

Clinton (NY) voted “yes” - for surrender

You mean, Mrs. Hillary "the Hawk" Clinton?

[mmichaels1970]

won’t do much good but...

Dear Senator Brown,

As an Ohio resident and Navy veteran, I’m very disappointed that you voted in support of surrender today. I don’t understand why you want us to lose so badly. I get it...you don’t like the President. That is hardly reason to put the lives of our soldiers in jeopardy. Your seeming willingness to lose a war to score political points is very disheartening.

I don’t want to hear about how concerned you are for our fighting men and women either. Your own party leadership has already declared this war lost. How are our enemies supposed to feel when they see a coequal branch of our government behaving this way? I suppose our enemies feel the way I’d feel if an Al Quaeda leader declared that they had already lost the War on Terror to the United States.

I do not feel you did well to represent me or my family today. I hope to see a stronger approach from you with our national defense in the future.

[bnelson44]

An Open Letter to Senator Reid on His Declaration of Defeat

http://lightfootcruise.blogspot.com/2007/04/open-letter-to-senator-reid-on-his.html

[IL Republican]

Do we know what “pork” items were attached to this bill?

[jveritas]

Much better :)

[ichabod1]

That looks like a gutta-percha walking stick. I gotta get me one of those.

[fireforeffect]

As I said, NOT mine.

http://www.redstate.com

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

There is a book (now available in paperback ):

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Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam and the American Left
(Hardcover)
by David Horowitz

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And reviews:

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Editorial Reviews

Rich Lowry, Editor National Review

David Horowitz is synonymous with pyrotechnics. A historian and polemicist of the first order, he is paid the ultimate compliment --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Davis Hanson, Author, Ripples of Battle

An original look at those who want us to fail in the Middle East, both at home and abroad. The --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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See all Editorial Reviews

Fascinating Analysis of Leftist Goals, August 13, 2006

Reviewer: N. Sincerity - See all my reviews

A former 1960s radical, Horowitz is well-acquainted with the Leftist mindset. In this book, he strives to explain the modern alliance between left wing progressivists and radical Islamofascists. He argues that this alliance is based on a common desire to destroy Western capitalism. Leftist sympathy with Islamofascist ideas makes no sense from an intellectual point of view, given that countries ruled by radical Islamists are among the most racist, sexist, theocratic states in the world today. However, Leftists have recognized that they can benefit politically from destructive terrorist attacks on the Western world. A West under attack can be made to turn on its leaders in fear and desperation (as they did in Spain after the Madrid train bombings). Only once people reject current government structures can the Left execute its anti-capitalist revolution and build a new reality that mirrors the Leftist view of utopia.

The complete and utter idealogical hypocrisy of the Islamofascist-Leftist alliance is distressing, but as Horowitz reminds us,

Leftists radicals truly believe the ends justify the means.

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[jveritas]

The Vietnam war was vastly more deadly and unpopular than the Iraq war and in both 1968 and 1972 elections the defeatists candidates of the democrat party were crushed. The majority of American voters will not elect a defeatist for President no matter what.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Hagel I would bet and maybe the dude from Oregon....

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Thanks,,,,,, should have read further....

[PurpleMan]

Lieberman was once called the consciousness of the Senate. With him diametrically opposed to some much of what the Dems stand for...

...When does the serious drumbeat begin for Leiberman to caucus with the GOP?

[rfp1234]

—Baucus (D-MT)—

Up for reelection in 2008

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Here is the PLAN from the Lefties.....

Dem war votes target GOP lawmakers

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As Democrats push to withdraw troops, they seek to undermine Republicans by creating repeated chances to side with an unpopular president.

[rfp1234]

—Senator Gordon Hairspray (D”R”-Surrender)—

Chicken of D.C.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

See #158.