Saturday, November 19, 2005

GOP Stunt:Force Vote on Troop W/Drawal ONLY

In-Forum: The House on Fri overwhelmingly rejected calls for an immediate troop w/drawal from Iraq, a vote engineered by Repubs that was intended to fail. Dems derided the vote as a political stunt b/c it was a STUNT: The Repub alternative to Murtha's proposal simply said: "It is the sense of the House of Representatives that the deployment of US forces in Iraq be terminated immediately." BUT Murtha's ACTUAL proposal said this: Murtha's own resolution would force the president to w/draw the nearly 160,000 troops in Iraq "at the earliest practicable date." It would establish a quick-reaction force and a nearby presence of Marines in the region. It also said the US must pursue stability in Iraq through diplomacy. So, since Murtha's actual proposal and the simpleton piece of shit that the GOP hacked up were nothing alike, the House voted 403-3 to reject the resolution offered by the GOP that called for the military to just *POOF*!... pull out of Iraq. Gee no wonder that like most Dems, Murtha voted against the measure. He said it was not the thoughtful approach he had suggested to bring the troops safely home in 6 months. But since when did the truth ever matter to the GOP?
Posted by Tina :: 12:10 AM :: 2 Comments:

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