House Dems Slam Republicans on Iraq Resolution (avoids Iraq debate)

NYT/Reuters: Democrats Slam Republicans Over Iraq Resolution
By REUTERS
Published: June 12, 2006

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans in the House of Representatives on Monday introduced a resolution they said would be the springboard for a thorough debate on the Iraq war, but Democrats decried it for dealing broadly with the war on terrorism instead focusing on Iraq.

The House later this week is to debate the resolution, which declares the United States will prevail in the war on terror and does not mention Iraq until the eighth paragraph....

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Republicans in Congress have sought to limit debate on the Iraq war, which has contributed heavily to Bush's slumping approval ratings and threatened to damage Republicans in this fall's midterm congressional elections.

Rep. Ike Skelton of Missouri, top Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee, complained that most of the resolution dealt with the war on terrorism, and referred "only secondarily to the war in Iraq."...

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But House Republican leader John Boehner in a statement cast the debate as a means to highlight "clear differences between Republicans and Democrats on how best to confront the Global War on Terror." He said the debate "will be about the fundamental question: Are we going to confront the threat of terrorism and defeat it, or will we relent and retreat in the hopes that it just goes away?"....

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/washington/politics-iraq-congress-usa.html

I hope the Dems run on a centre-left platform, take back congress and then ram investigations and far left legislation down these assholes throats for the next 2 years.

...attach a turbine to these gasbags.

We could power the East Coast for a year...

This is so transparent a 3 year old could disect it. That means it will probably go over "big-time" with the right-wing sheeple.

It's nothing but a classic strawman argument. It's like asking the question "when did you stop beating your wife"?

According to this resolution, either you agree that everything Chimpy has done in the war on terror is right, or you want to relent and retreat. It's like saying if I decide to take a different route to work, I would never get there. I don't think the American people are as stupid as the right-wing sheeple think we are.

Now, anyone with half a brain knows that there are about a million different things that could have been done to defeat terrorism than what Chimpy has done. Not to mention the fact that he's failed miserably. Are our ports secure? Do we have Bin Laden? Is the Taliban making a comeback? Are we now supporting the same warlords in Somalia that dragged the burning corpses of American troops through the streets? Do we have enough police and security forces? Is the National Guard ready to respond to a crisis? Is FEMA ready? Is the Department of Homeland Security ready? Is our border secure? Have we fixed immigration? Can the President make an unannounced visit to that beacon of Democracy in Iraq and walk the streets?

Hell! It's not even safe to go hunting with Dick Cheney!!

I ask you America! Aren't you sick of being told to be afraid? Are we a bunch of sniveling cowards that need a phoney hero in a stuffed codpiece to make us feel better!? Or, are we the America that our fathers gave us"?