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Six House Republicans voted against Iraq Resolution: Here Are The Names

Posted on 10/10/2002 5:36:55 PM PDT by Recovering_Democrat

REPUBLICANS
who chose to not support their President:

1. John J. Duncan (Tennessee, 2nd District)
http://www.house.gov/duncan/

2. John Hostettler (Indiana, 8th)
http://www.house.gov/hostettler/

3. Amo Houghton (New York, 31st District)
http://www.house.gov/hostettler/

4. Jim Leach (Iowa, 1st)
http://www.house.gov/leach/

5. Connie Morella (Maryland, 8th)
http://www.house.gov/morella/

6. Ron Paul (Texas, 14th)
http://www.house.gov/paul/


TOPICS: Announcements; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; US: Indiana; US: Iowa; US: Maryland; US: New York; US: Tennessee; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: iraq; republicans; vote; war
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To: getoutdabushes
yeah, he should just let us continue bombing his country

Here is what you said. The clear implication of this statement is that Hussein is justified in shooting at our pilots because they are bombing Iraq. Aside from the fact that you have the situation exactly backwards, i.e. we are bombing the Iraqis in order to prevent them from shooting down our pilots. your statement clearly suggests that it is okay for Hussein to shoot at and even kill our pilots. Your statement is sick and pathetic and demonstrates that you don't give a hoot if some of our pilots are killed by Hussein.

81 posted on 10/10/2002 7:03:07 PM PDT by vbmoneyspender
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To: John W
then why didn't our rulers just call it that? how many of the democrats who voted for it are really for it and how many are just covering their butts for the elections. if it was called a declaration of war it would have never passed the house.
82 posted on 10/10/2002 7:03:54 PM PDT by Nam68
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To: Recovering_Democrat
Listened to the "debate" in the Senate on the way home. My question is if we need to attack, why doesn't congress declare war? If we don't, then we don't need this resolution.
83 posted on 10/10/2002 7:04:01 PM PDT by palmer
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To: vbmoneyspender
yes, and when questioned on my stand, I said that Congress should declare war on Iraq if we are going to continue violating their airspace. I know all about the Iraqi's losing the Gulf War and what they had to agree to. I'm thankfull that the Iraqi's are incompetent and that our pilots for the most part have been unharmed. But our politcal leaders should also have the guts to do what is right.
84 posted on 10/10/2002 7:09:28 PM PDT by Nam68
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To: Gunslingr3
Explain to me why we have American troops in the Middle East and not other pissant wars?

Saudi Arabia asked for troops after Hussein threatened to swallow it up in 1991. If the Saudis asked us to leave, we'd be out in ten days.

Whether you like it or not, oil is the engine of the global economy. Insuring stability in the market is vital.

America doesn't "start wars." We finish them, and we're about to finish one, albeit ten years after we should have.

I don't think you understand the kind of enemy we are facing. You and Ron Paul would choose to try to isolate yourselves in the hopes that your Garden of Eden would remain intact.

These Islamists don't need a reason to kill us; they do it because their warped religious sentiment commands them to bring all things under the domination of Allah.

You clowns insist on trying to Neville-Chamberlain the West to death. Thank God there are visionary leaders who recognize your folly.

85 posted on 10/10/2002 7:09:41 PM PDT by sinkspur
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To: A Citizen Reporter; ABG(anybody but Gore); acnielsen guy; Angelwood; arazitjh; b4its2late; ...
fyi
86 posted on 10/10/2002 7:11:48 PM PDT by kayak
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To: Recovering_Democrat
Bull feathers. Our National Security is of paramount importance to this survival as a nation. I for one do not want to see another September 11, 2001. Even if we cannot guarantee the pre-emption of another terrorist attack, the United States as the sole SuperPower on the planet has a duty to her citizens (and indeed the citizens of all Freedom Loving nations) to ensure the elimination of all threats.

September 11th happened because we have American troops stationed in the Middle East and provide military equipment at U.S. taxpayer expense to Israel.

You want to embark the U.S. military on a war against any nation that could threaten us? Do you intend to storm your neighbor's house and kill him if he doesn't turn in his gun to you?

The argument that Saddam is not a threat isn't even accepted by the mainline liberals--he is dangerous and to a degree not seen in perhaps a generation or two.

Hussein is interested in staying alive and keeping power. How does attacking the U.S. further that?

Saddam seeks weapons to use them, and there is not a doubt in my mind that he would use them on Americans if he could get away with. The sooner he's taking a dirt nap, the better.

Why would he give us a reason to obliterate him by attacking us with a nuclear weapon? Why does MAD work on a mass murdering sociopath like Stalin or Mao, but not Hussein?

87 posted on 10/10/2002 7:13:39 PM PDT by Gunslingr3
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To: mrb1960
Hostettler is one of the half-dozen most conservative guys in the House, but he marches to his own drummer. He's developed quite a reputation for quirky independence, but also for a let-the-chips-fall-where-they-may fearlessness. Haven't seen his reasons for this vote, but the one thing I am confident of is that he didn't wimp out for political reasons. John would vote his conscience if 99% of his district were breaking out the tar and feathers. He ain't a RINO.
88 posted on 10/10/2002 7:15:58 PM PDT by sphinx
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To: kayak
Ron Paul, what a surprise ::::eyeroll:::::
89 posted on 10/10/2002 7:20:50 PM PDT by McLynnan
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To: Manish Boy
Well. of course you're right. It all starts with our ridiculous tax system, which ensures wheeling & dealing & outright corruption. And you DID start it! (But that's OK, this is starting to be a really interesting thread!)
90 posted on 10/10/2002 7:21:28 PM PDT by leilani
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To: Recovering_Democrat
As much as I wish they all voted like Bob Barr, remember that the most important vote that they make is the one for Speaker.
91 posted on 10/10/2002 7:22:52 PM PDT by white trash redneck
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To: Deb
Duncan is a prosaic conservative from Knoxville, Tenn that has been GOP since rocks got cold. It is a surprising vote, that will get him in trouble politically perhaps in the the 2004 primary. Hostetler is a bit of a kook.
92 posted on 10/10/2002 7:23:24 PM PDT by Torie
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To: sphinx
So true about Hostettler. What I'm curious about, after the vote, is how many of the 290-odd will have sons (daughters?) going in among the first wave of infantry
93 posted on 10/10/2002 7:28:28 PM PDT by karlamayne
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To: sinkspur; Jonathon Spectre
Whether you like it or not, oil is the engine of the global economy. Insuring stability in the market is vital.

Let's examine a few facts about the U.S. and Middle Eastern oil:

In 2001 the United States economy consumed ~19.4 million barrels of oil per day. At the current price price of ~$25 that comes to a shade over 177 billion dollars spent on oil in the United States. Now, of that oil a little over half is imported. Of the half that is imported about one quarter comes from the Middle East. (Over half of our imported oil comes from the Western Hemisphere.) So, we taxpayers funded a military to the tune of ~279 billion dollars in order to protect "business interests" that only amounts to ~23 billion dollars to the U.S.?

Do you consider that wise? Whose investment are we protecting here?

It is not the duty of the American taxpayer or American soldier to fund and fight wars to try and 'stabilize' a commodity price. By taking our money by force through taxation and spending it on a military to protect the overseas investments of the politically connected the true cost of oil is disguised. If Middle Eastern 'instability' led to higher oil prices it would provide the profit incentive to explore for greater supplies (which we see enormous quantities of in the former U.S.S.R. and Western Africa). In addition, the profit motive would encourage development of alternative sources (driven by market demands, not bureaucratic grant allocation) that would reduce the income of those barbaric nations back to the stone age it was in before we found the black gold they're sitting on.

By supporting the posting of American armies in the region you are inviting the attacks we have suffered and perpetuating the problem.

Where is the faith in neutrality, peace and free markets among professed supporters of a Free Republic? What is your return for the investment of American taxpayer armies in the Middle East? Is it dead relatives in Lebanon? Saudi Arabia? Kuwait? Iran? Afghanistan? New York? Washington, D.C.?

If it's too dangerous for foreign businesses to have oil wells in the Middle East then let them spend the money to build new ones somewhere else, or pay to defend them themselves. Don't let them hire the U.S. military to protect their investment at the cost of American lives abroad, at home, and liberties surrendered to their 'war'.

94 posted on 10/10/2002 7:34:07 PM PDT by Gunslingr3
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To: Gunslingr3
"...We can bring our troops home and reassure the world that America defends her own. Not the Kuwaiti King, or the Saudi princes...We Americans have no dog in this fight."
Say what? This maniac has not only been gassing Kurds, he's been funding the murder of American toddlers. What papers do you read? How in God's name do you think we don't have a POODLE in this fight?
95 posted on 10/10/2002 7:34:26 PM PDT by leilani
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To: ladyinred
Whoo Hoo! California didn't have any! What a shock!

I hear ya. I was looking for someone from Ohio, but was very pleased not to find one from the home State. I was looking for one from my second State, Texas, and was getting excited until...

You know.

96 posted on 10/10/2002 7:43:26 PM PDT by rdb3
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To: Recovering_Democrat
Remember Houghton was the only republican that went to Clinton, with his kneepads on, begging Clinton to accept censure??????? Clinton then appointed his wife to a position to do with the arts in DC.

Can anyone say "RINO"

Houghton is also the richest elected man in Washington. His company has huge optic fiber plants in China, going full bore.

97 posted on 10/10/2002 7:50:13 PM PDT by cynicom
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To: getoutdabushes
we quit violating Iraqi airspace

You might want to read the Cease Fire Agreement. He agreed to the no fly zones and we agreed to stop kicking the hell out of his army. He broke his part, now we are about to solve the problem.

98 posted on 10/10/2002 7:52:23 PM PDT by HoustonCurmudgeon
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To: nicmarlo
nic...

Houghton is an ex marine...

99 posted on 10/10/2002 7:57:05 PM PDT by cynicom
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To: ladyinred; HoustonCurmudgeon
"Whoo Hoo! California didn't have any! What a shock!"

I think we'll ship Ron Paul to California.
His Libertarian views would go better in San Francisco.

100 posted on 10/10/2002 8:02:18 PM PDT by COB1
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