GOP Resolution=Black or White/Murtha's Resolution has Grey Tones

This is the point. The republicans are trying to force something down the Democrat's throats.

Funny how the Republicans in the debate keep referring to the "Democrat resolution", even though they introduced it and it bears ZERO resemblance to the the Murtha Resolution.
http://www.dailykos.com/

Edited on Fri Nov-18-05 10:21 PM by kpete

The GOP version:

RESOLUTION

Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that
the deployment of United States forces in Iraq be terminated immediately.

Resolved, That it is the sense of the House of Representatives that the deployment of United States forces
in Iraq be terminated immediately.

http://www.dailykos.com /

Murtha Resolution To Redeploy U.S. Forces from Iraq:
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

November 17, 2005

_____________________

Whereas Congress and the American People have not been shown clear, measurable progress toward establishment of stable and improving security in Iraq or of a stable and improving economy in Iraq, both of which are essential to "promote the emergence of a democratic government";

Whereas additional stabilization in Iraq by U, S. military forces cannot be achieved without the deployment of hundreds of thousands of additional U S. troops, which in turn cannot be achieved without a military draft;

Whereas more than $277 billion has been appropriated by the United States Congress to prosecute U.S. military action in Iraq and Afghanistan;

Whereas, as of the drafting of this resolution, 2,079 U.S. troops have been killed in Operation Iraqi Freedom;

Whereas U.S. forces have become the target of the insurgency,

Whereas, according to recent polls, over 80% of the Iraqi people want U.S. forces out of Iraq;

Whereas polls also indicate that 45% of the Iraqi people feel that the attacks on U.S. forces are justified;

Whereas, due to the foregoing, Congress finds it evident that continuing U.S. military action in Iraq is not in the best interests of the United States of America, the people of Iraq, or the Persian Gulf Region, which were cited in Public Law 107-243 as justification for undertaking such action;

Therefore be it

I) Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in

2) Congress assembled,

3) That:

4) Section 1. The deployment of United States forces in Iraq, by direction of Congress, is

5) hereby terminated and the forces involved are to be redeployed at the earliest practicable

6) date.

7) Section 2. A quick-reaction U.S. force and an over-the-horizon presence of U.S Marines

8) shall be deployed in the region.

9) Section 3 The United States of America shall pursue security and stability in Iraq

10) through diplomacy.


Signature lines are currently turned

there was no question for some posters to actually wait and see what the repugs were putting forth to vote on. and the suggestion to not trust repugs and wait and see, was incomprehensible.

i missed this. had to pick up the kids

so really the repugs put out,...... cut and run, or honor our soldiers by supporting them?????

This was a sham from the beginning!!!

outrageous

"present" since the Republican bill is a huge distortion of Murtha's bill.

that the GOP wrote. They need to insist on debating the Murtha Resolution or nothing at all.

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