The withdraw-from-Iraq movement in Congress

The withdraw-from-Iraq movement is slowly gathering strength in the US Congress.
I’ve been away from most news sources for most of the past week, so I don’t know how much publicity has been given to the fact that on Wednesday evening 128 members of the House of Representatives voted for an amendment stating:

    “It is the sense of Congress that the president should

23 thoughts on “The withdraw-from-Iraq movement in Congress”

  1. “I have been very disappointed in what I have learned about the justification for going into Iraq.”
    It took two years by Walter Jones to learn, two years past already and GWB win 2nd term then Walter Jones comes now give what he learned! More than two years to learn…, I don

  2. Why are you in the least surprised — perhaps you’re not — that Goode voted against it. The man is inherently right wing. As you know he is so confident that he has his fingers on the pulse of the crackers in Southside that he could just go on and switch parties with impunity.
    My rep,Boucher (D), of “the fighting ninth”, voted against it too. He masquerades as a libral sometimes, but he too has to satisfy the local jingoists most of the time. I am waiting, almost praying, for the tides to change.

  4. “The problem is that Bush wants “victory,” not a workable solution, and he is prepared to pay any price for victory”!
    NOT QUITE… he’s prepared for YOU/ME/US/anyone willing to join his coalition of the willing to pay.

  5. “The problem is that Bush wants ‘victory'”
    yea and Howard and Blair too…Chirac also wanted a victory today but alas democracy can sometimes disappoint…as Schroeder is also likely to learn this fall.

  7. Others, like Spc. Jason Delfosse, of the 82nd Airborne Division, come to get treatment for non-combat related ills. “I was here for kidney stones,” he said, holding his crimson paratrooper beret. “I’m going to Afghanistan to rejoin my unit.”
    Helenna, your tax goes to help this guy

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