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House Disavows Calls for Iraq Withdrawal

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Posted by ed 2005-12-16 15:57|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 the chamber is committed "to achieving victory in Iraq"

How out of touch do you need to be to vote against achieving victory in Iraq? Need to get and save the roll call. This will be great stuff at election time. Just saw a Dem strategist on Fox and she was consumed with BDS. She started out by saying - we need to get the focus off Iraq and focus on other things going wrong in this country. She actually said, "we will take the war to George Bush". The other guest called her on it and she just started to spew BDS venom and was clearly unhappy that Iraq was going so well. They really are in a pathetic disarray.

Posted by 2b 2005-12-16 16:17|| 2005-12-16 16:17|| Front Page Top

#2 For the second time in as many months, the House rejected calls for withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq with a vote Friday that Democrats said was politically driven and designed by Republicans to limit debate on the war.

Exactly what more is there to debate on Iraq that hasn't already been put forth and discussed?

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2005-12-16 16:33|| 2005-12-16 16:33|| Front Page Top

#3 cough * blowmeMurtha * cough

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2005-12-16 17:24|| 2005-12-16 17:24|| Front Page Top

#4 Apparently there's 108 Dhimmicrats who don't want to pursue victory there whatever it takes. It was worth 1,500 American lives but not 1,501, apparently.

Posted by Clereng Pheresh3932 2005-12-16 17:25|| 2005-12-16 17:25|| Front Page Top

#5 Just saw a Dem strategist on Fox and she was consumed with BDS. She started out by saying - we need to get the focus off Iraq and focus on other things going wrong in this country.

Heh. Good catch; the Donks really do want to get the focus off Iraq-- desperately.

In part that's because they've got an extremely thin foreign-policy bench that doesn't have anything to offer beyond vapid let's-work-together-with-our-allies boilerplate rhetoric. And to the extent that any of them actually have any real solutions in the GWoT, those solutions aren't going to differ materially from what we're doing right now. But most of them don't even have that; they're clueless when it comes to waging a war against Islamic extremism.

Their desire to get the focus off Iraq and the GWoT is also due to their need to appease the Michael Moore/Cindy Sheehan America-is-always-wrong wing of the Party, on whom they've become excessively dependent for cash.

Over the half-century or so that I've been paying any attention to them, the Democrats have degenerated into a one-trick donkey: the only politics they know anymore is the politics of cultivating bogus "victim" groups and buying the group's votes by handing them government benefits and new "rights" like so much Halloween candy. Parasite Politics is the only politics the Democratic Party knows how to play anymore, and Iraq and the GWoT are distractions from that game. They are no longer the "party of the working man": they're the party of the NON-working man, the party of freeloaders and fuckups.

And they have one more problem: as much as they claim they'd like to "focus on other things going wrong in this country", the plain fact is that there's damn little wrong with it.

And it's driving them stark, raving bugshit.

Posted by Dave D.">Dave D. 2005-12-16 17:45|| 2005-12-16 17:45|| Front Page Top

#6 The Vote

Among Republicans, 220 supported the proposal, none were opposed and two voted "present"

Nitwitti pseudo-GOP : Leach of Iowa, and Paul of Texas

Posted by BigEd 2005-12-16 17:47|| 2005-12-16 17:47|| Front Page Top

#7 108 N, 59 Y, 32 P

Embrace Diversity!

Posted by DepotGuy 2005-12-16 17:53|| 2005-12-16 17:53|| Front Page Top

#8 Parasite Politics

Catchy Phrase Dave! Almost as good as Vampire Vulture Elite which I first saw on The Diplomad earlier this year to describe those UN vampires who descented on the Tsuami victims.

Posted by CrazyFool 2005-12-16 18:23|| 2005-12-16 18:23|| Front Page Top

#9 Just saw a Dem strategist on Fox and she was consumed with BDS. She started out by saying - we need to get the focus off Iraq and focus on other things going wrong in this country.

What's going wrong with the country?

Democrats.

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford 2005-12-16 19:04|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2005-12-16 19:04|| Front Page Top

#10 Treasons Greetings from the Democrats

Posted by DMFD 2005-12-16 22:21|| 2005-12-16 22:21|| Front Page Top

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