Saturday, November 19, 2005

House rejects Iraq pullout - Yahoo! News

An interesting tactic by the Republicans -- attempting to get the Democrats to "put up or shut-up".
House rejects Iraq pullout - Yahoo! News

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In a maneuver to strike at Iraq war critics, the Republican-led House of Representatives engineered a vote on Friday on a resolution to pull U.S. troops immediately from Iraq, which was defeated nearly unanimously.
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Democrats said no one advocated an immediate pull-out without ensuring the safety of troops, and that it was a meaningless resolution that ducked serious debate on the situation in Iraq. It was defeated 403-3.

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