President, House agree to Iraq resolution

USA TODAY ^ | 10/02/02

[kattracks]

WASHINGTON (AP)

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Resolution here:

White House resolution on US force in Iraq - To be introduced in both House and Senate (Breaking )

[ghost of nixon]

Gephart is on board - Daschle is still holding out. The Dem's must be feeling the heat from their peace-nik wing. Daschle knows that the longer the Iraq debate drags on, his "issues" are crowded off the front page.

[Southack]

So much for Gore's new hissy fit today. Gephardt just made Gore irrelevant to the Iraqi debate...

[IonInsights]

whatever one's opinions of Gephart and Lieberman, one has to admit that they are much smarter then the majority of their colleagues.

[JohnGalt]

to enforce all relevant United Nations Security Council resolutions regarding Iraq.

One-two-three-four we don't want your UN war.

[The Great Satan]

Lieberman, at least, is not doing this out of political expediency. He was out there calling for us to take on Iraq right after 9/11.

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[twigs]

Lieberman is Jewish and probably feels the immediacy of Iraq's threat more than the run-of-the-mill democrat. Didn't he also have a distant relative, also named Lieberman, die in Israel in the last several years?

[The Great Satan]

Sounds vaguely familiar. And, yeah, he would would have more reason to be aware of Saddam's threat as a Jew, although there are certainly plenty of liberal Jews who don't get it. Recall, too, that abiding leftist hostility to Israel was a big factor in driving many formerly left-wing Jews into the conservative camp.

[SmithW6079]

It was a cousin, I think. Last year.

[cake_crumb]

Typical of the AP to use a thousand words or more to say:

"President's Iraq plan sails through House, gains support even among Democrats, though many other Democrats aren't taking the president's victory with any type of good grace.

"Senate Democrats who don't want the plan plan to filibuster if necessary to give their own whining, UN appeasing, ineffective version of the Iraq plan a chance to be shoved down the throats of the American public."

[cake_crumb]

"Daschle knows that the longer the Iraq debate drags on, his "issues" are crowded off the front page."

Either that or while Daschle rested on his obstructionary laurals, believing he had all the apparatus in place to manufacture another Bush administration "scandal", the president did a neat flanking maneuver on him and GOT TO some of Daschle's lackeys.

...Or perhaps SOME Dems are beginning to believe the Floriduh redux Toricelli election fiasco and the revelation that the Dems are fielding a dead candidate in Hawaii doesn't bode well for their own political careers unless they can distance themselves from the worst Democrat poliyical messes ASAP. After all, controlling the Senate is NOT the same thing as having a Democrat housepet running the IRS and Justice Department to run interference for you.

...Probably both.

[Austin Willard Wright]

Yet another bi-partisan Depublican/War. I knew from the beginning that the Democratic "dissent" was merely eyewash for an eventual blank check to Dubya.

[Austin Willard Wright]

That's "Demopublican"

[Mark]

The resolution also requires Bush to report to Congress every 60 days on "matters relevant" to the confrontation with Iraq.

60 days? Like in New Jersey, this number can be interpreted in so many ways. Maybe just a 10 second bombing notice would qualify.