House rejects troop pullout; Dems decry vote (Rep. Ford yells repub's making uncalled for attacks)

AP ^ | November 19, 2005 | AP

[SmithL]

I'm still looking for the headline that says:

Overwhelming Bi-Partisan Support for War in Congress

[RasterMaster]

It was pointed out very well last night that BJ Clinton's "home by Christmas" pledge for Kosovo was nothing but hot air....we STILL have troops there after 10 years.

[EQAndyBuzz]

"WASHINGTON - The House on Friday overwhelmingly rejected calls for an immediate troop withdrawal from Iraq, a vote engineered by the Republicans that was intended to fail. Democrats derided the vote as a political stunt. "

Why was it intended to fail? I mean if the Democrats felt so strongly about us pulling out, the vote would have been 230-215. But 403-3?

Now the RATS have to shut their pie holes. They had the chance to complain, they did and now they are on record for supporting the military in Iraq.

[Fruitbat]

Rep. Harold Ford, D-Tenn., charged across the chamber's center aisle screaming that Republicans were making uncalled-for personal attacks.

Where's the "they can dish it out but not take it" alert. LOL

[Luke21]

Man, is this piece loaded up with lefty drivel or what?

[Tench_Coxe]

Thinking about these schumcks ever take the reigns of power again in the US, one wonders if we'll see another Civil War.

[nmh]

Who were the three who voted FOR the immediate pull out?

This is soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

SHAMEFULL.

These Deomncrats are doing everything feasible to try and undermine Bush, our military and create another Viet Nam. It totally disgusts me. If we did pull out, then ALL the men and women who died over there would be in vain. I despise Demoncrats. They are EVIL.

[litehaus]

"You guys are pathetic! Pathetic!" yelled Rep. Marty Meehan, D-Mass."

AND, this guy knows 'pathetic' from personal experience there in Massasschewsitz.

[MattinNJ]

Rep. Harold Ford, D-Tenn., charged across the chamber's center aisle screaming that Republicans were making uncalled-for personal attacks.

Thereby ending Mr. Ford's run at a Senate seat in Tennessee next year.

[Christian4Bush]

Yeah, I'm a little quizzical about this, too. I mean, Vietnam? The guy's only about five years younger than my WWII dad. How did Murtha miss Korea? I am willing to give the guy the benefit of the doubt, but I would be interested in a little more info about exactly what he did in Vietnam. I thought I heard that he had a couple of Purple Hearts?

I'm recalling Burtha's (err...Murtha's) comment about VP Cheney's five deferments, using that to say that he (Cheney) has no say...I seem to remember reading that Jean Francois Kerry had FOUR deferments, and only went when the FIFTH one was turned down...or let's not forget DNC Chair Howard Dean, who got a medical deferment from serving in Nam, and was soon spotted SKIING.

I suggest a new amendment - that no one else can use Vietnam as a piggyback to higher political aspirations. Why the hell anyone would want to pimp being a part of a war that we LOST is anyone's guess. And we lost it because of shickenchit ideas like Murtha's (only in Nam, it was carried out to fruition).

[MattinNJ]

Welcome aboard.

[Christian4Bush]

A thread last night said that Murtha received his purple hearts for two wounds, one above his left eye and another one on his cheek. Neither involved hospitalization.

Is it possible that this is what John Kerry will look like, in 15 years?

[ChadGore]

These isolationist liberals don't even have the guts to put their vote where their appeasement is.

[Polybius]

Yeah, I'm a little quizzical about this, too. I mean, Vietnam? The guy's only about five years younger than my WWII dad. How did Murtha miss Korea?

He was both a Vietnam War and Korean War veteran and, as NPR was trumpeting yesterday, he has two Purple Hearts. That, however, makes his opinion no more sacrosanct than the opinion of my uncle who also has two Purple Hearts and whose opinion the liberal news media could care less about as it differs from their political agenda.

[Polybius]

It was pointed out very well last night that BJ Clinton's "home by Christmas" pledge for Kosovo was nothing but hot air....we STILL have troops there after 10 years.

By the way, when is Harry Truman going to bring the troops back from Korea?

[expatpat]

I vote for a combination of electoshock therapy and high colonics, repeated every 4 hours.

[Christian4Bush]

It was pointed out very well last night that BJ Clinton's "home by Christmas" pledge for Kosovo was nothing but hot air....we STILL have troops there after 10 years.

I'm trying to remember who said that. I hope the House Record from last night will be posted soon.

[Crawdad]

Somewhere in America, there's the dumbest 73-year-old Marine veteran decorated for combat service in Vietnam in America.

[RasterMaster]

"By the way, when is Harry Truman going to bring the troops back from Korea?"

Where's the FDR "exit strategy" (signal of surrender) for Germany? Japan?

[RasterMaster]

If I recall, it was the last speaker, Texas Congressman Sam Johnson. The DUmocrats also didn't want him to finish, but were too spineless to go on record as opposing him.