WASHINGTON (AP) - Senate Republicans on Wednesday scuttled a Democratic proposal ordering troop withdrawals from Iraq in a showdown that capped an all- night debate on the war.
The 52-47 vote fell short of the 60 votes needed to cut off debate under Senate rules. It was a sound defeat for Democrats who say the U.S. military campaign, in its fifth year and requiring 158,000 troops, cannot tame the sectarian violence in Iraq.“We have to get us out of a middle of a civil war” said Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Del., who chairs the Foreign Relations Committee. A political solution must be found “so when we leave Iraq, we don’t just send our children home, we don’t have to send our grandchildren back.”
As members cast their votes, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice hurried between private meetings with lawmakers in their Capitol Hill offices to make the administration’s case for the war.
The Democratic proposal, by Sens. Carl Levin, D-Mich., and Jack Reed, D-R.I., would have required Bush to start bringing home troops within 120 days and complete the pullout by April 30, 2008. Under the bill, an unspecified number of troops could remain behind to conduct a narrow set of missions: counterterrorism, protecting U.S. assets and training Iraqi security forces.
Reid Fails Again…Senate Blocks Immediate Pullout
Posted by Pam
on 7/18/2007
I hope the American people clearly recognize the Defeatocrats for who they are and what they are attmepting to do.
Change course, yes, absolutely. Accept defeat and run with tail tucked: HELL NO!
Sen. Feinstein said by pulling out of Iraq we could repair America’s image. Huh? It would absolutey destroy America’s image! She is too f’ing stupid to be a Senator and in a position of power, imo, if that is what she really believes.
This is really bad news for Republicans.
With every legislative block on ending the war, they bring themselves closer to defeat in the upcoming election next year.
This only makes the Democrats look more appealing to the 65+% of Americans who want the occupation of Iraq to end.
“Sen. Feinstein said by pulling out of Iraq we could repair America’s image.”
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Yes actually, it would be a good start.
I know a dwindling handful of you wacko righties out there still don’t get it yet on Iraq, but the occupation really has been a very grave tactical and political mistake for America and our allies.
It has made the criminal problem with terrorism WORSE, not better…
…and we have been there over FIVE YEARS. Longer than WW2.
Our image is probably irreperably (sp?) damaged thanks to Bush and the morons who voted for him, but it might help a little if we got out of Iraq ASAP.
But, of course, you just don’t “get it”.
SFL,
You have a whack view of WW2. We fought a hot war for fewer years, but WE ARE STILL THERE. Just depends on if you are trying to be honest or trying to justifying cutting and running.
SFL, as usual, you are an IDIOT
did muslim animals take the american embassy hostages in Tehran before or after Iraq?
did muslim animals blow up pan am flight 103 before or after Iraq?
did muslim animals hijack the achille Lauro before or after iraq?
did muslim animals bomb the marine barracks in Saudi Arabia before or after iraq?
did muslim animals bomb the WTC before or after iraq?
did muslim animals bomb the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania before or after iraq?
did muslim animals bomb the USS Cole before or after Iraq?
did 9/11 occur before or after Iraq? you remember that day, right? That’s the day that animal muslims in the west bank were dancing, smiling, passing out candy at the sight of secretaries leaping 100 stories to their deaths to avoid being consumed by a fire f#ck ball, created by more animal muslims….
Would you like to re-phrase your assinine statement about how our being in Iraq has made the terrorism problem WORSE.
and on another note, SF moron, you might actually look into what’s happening in Iraq, rather than just parroting the sound bites of B. Hussein Obama and the traitor lobby.
Anbar province was until recently a lost cause. Al-Qaida was having its way with the place. But its way was repellently brutal to local Iraqis, who increasingly saw al-Qaida as even more alien than the troops of the Coalition. About a year ago, local leaders in Anbar began siding with us, and now their fighters are working with our soldiers and the Iraqi army has sent al-Qaida packing. Ramadi, once an al-Qaida model for Sharia, is one of the safest cities in Iraq.
Part of the explanation is the savage brand of Sharia imposed by al-Qaida in Ramadi. It has also been imposed by al-Qaida in Diyala province. There, grisly torture chambers were discovered after our military liberated the province’s major city, Baqubah. Local residents directed the Americans to a building where they found the instruments of torture. Nearby, corpses, many headless, were buried.
Diyala, not surprisingly, is going the way of Anbar. In recent weeks, our troops mounted a deadly operation against al-Qaida, killing hundreds and capturing more. As in Anbar, local sheiks have come to our side, recognizing that we will leave their province a lot faster than victorious al-Qaida, and we will leave their lands in relative freedom.
Once again, a catalyst for the sheiks’ cooperation was al-Qaida’s brand of Sharia. Al-Qaida had brought in foreign judges, called muftis. Their punishment of transgressions committed by local residents included murdering children, often with public beheadings. “Loose” morals were also punished.
5,6, Mike, maybe we ought to have San Francisco liberated and occupied. Maybe there’ll be some sense of normalcy restored after a decade or two.
it’s amazing logic, they come up with a false premise and base their even more ludicrous conclusions off of it.
it’s like arguing with a 2 year old.
7, yeah, I’d still like to see coalition forces liberate philadelphia.. after 200+ murders already, I doubt the inept dumbocrats who run this city will EVER be able to declare an end to major combat operations in north and west philly (as if they were doing anything in the first place)
chew on that, SFL, per capita, more people are killed in West philly than in Iraq.
Again, would you like to change your statement??????
Mike, I know 2 year olds wiser than SFL.
Basically, SFL should be restricted to diapers and nave no freedoms other than granted by a government appointed care giver. Mainly because that is what he and his ilk are trying to foist upon the rest of us.
if you took all of the cesspool cities, run by DEMOCRATS like
Philly
DC
Detroit
San Francisco
how many deaths are we talking about???? it’s more dangerous in the tenderloin than Fallujah, it’s scarier at 54th and Baltimore than the triangle of death. and detroit…………..I’d sooner be hiking in the “mountainous region that borders with Pakistan”
“It has made the criminal problem with terrorism WORSE, not better:”
Wow, what a misread. When terrorism such as al Queda, Hamas and the like are stae sponsored it is NOT a criminal problem.
“This only makes the Democrats look more appealing to the 65+% of Americans who want the occupation of Iraq to end.”
Wow…you have horriobly misread the Ameican people.
SFL still thinks we should operate under the Klintonian model of fighting terror (otherwise known as do nothing)
Mike,
Maybe we ought to declare San Francisco a no retaliation city. In that if terrorists set off bombs, shoot up the place or any other acts of terror, the US pledges not to reapond in any way.
I wonder if they will wake up then?
No, it won’t. terrorism dosen’t bother them, but try and pass a bill making same sex marriage illegal and watch them their (pardon my expression) panties in a bunch.
“Loose”morals were also punished.
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Yeah,and as PCD pointed out, can you imagine what the Islamofascists would do if they took over San Francisco? The beheading assembly line would be running 24 hours per day.
16, Yeah, with Rep. Keith Ellison, D-MN intoning “Allah Akhbar!” on the floor of the US Houwe with each beheading.
let’s see how “tolerant” SFL is with his cabeza lopped off and rolling down Sutter St.
or B. Hussein Obama for that matter, with his white, infidel mother……
Mike, SFL is BACA!
Please Raheem, Mohammed, don’t lop my head off, I Voted for nancy Pelosi!!!
whack!!!
:d You guys are funny but the sad part of it is that you are correct. Liberals (SFL for one) don’t believe terrorism is a threat and don’t for a minute want to even secure America.
I personally think we should keep the city of San Francisco as isolated and alone as possible. They seem to like it that way and I know I certainly don’t want my tax money to go for any security for them.
let them cecede from the union, tax anyone lucky enough to still have a job at 90% to pay for the blanket amnesty they will give to “undocumented workers”
knock yourselves out.
I would like to see them become their own little country. It wouldn’t bother me in the least. There should be certain rules laid out though such as no tax money goes to their little libby cubbie hole. No sending out for help on ANYTHING without paying a hefty price first and last but not least they should pay the United States Federal Government rent on their use of our land.
I wonder how long they would last?
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A funny thing happened on PBS this weekend. The head of the NYT Iraq Bureau said that the US military presence in Iraq has had a calming influence and is helping to reduce sectarian violence there. I wonder if he’s been told to clear out his desk yet?