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| Congress Stages Iraq War Debates |
| 2006-06-15 |
| Politics are permeating election-year debates on Iraq in the House and Senate, where Republicans and Democrats alike are carefully staking out their positions on the increasingly unpopular war. Seeking an advantage, House Republicans aim to force Democrats to go on record supporting President Bush's wartime policies by staging a vote as early as Thursday on a GOP resolution that praises U.S. troops and rejects setting "an arbitrary date" for withdrawing them from Iraq. "The fundamental question in this debate is: Are we going to confront the threat of terrorism and defeat it, or will we relent and retreat and hope the problem goes away?" House Majority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, said, providing a preview of the possible GOP line of attack should Democrats oppose the resolution. |
| Posted by:ryuge |
| #5 "Staging" a debate, indeed. Must be a 'lection year. |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2006-06-15 10:36 |
| #4 IPSOS has zero cred. It is a DIY polling service where you tell them the results you want, and they give you those results. Essentially, it is outsourcing responsibility, because if a US pollster gets too obscene, there are ways it can be sanctioned. But the French, they do not give deux merdes. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2006-06-15 10:31 |
| #3 Because they are. Rantburg had a discussion last year on Ipsos, the French polling firm, and their questionable methods of pushing public opinion in the service of French elites. |
| Posted by: ed 2006-06-15 09:05 |
| #2 Why do I get the feeling that AP-Ipsos polls are full of shit? A manipulated, cherry picked, tool for the libs to try the ol' Jeddi Mind Trick on people and convince them that the left is making a raging comeback. |
| Posted by: Thravitch Crolush3849 2006-06-15 08:29 |
| #1 Ask the Dems for a timetable for pulling out of Japan and Germany. It's only been about 60 years now and more then enough times when they had both the White House and Congress to make it happen in that period. So how about it, where's the plan? |
| Posted by: Flons Croque2804 2006-06-15 08:06 |