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To: Mr. Palau who wrote (60894)	7/13/2007 1:30:24 AM
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House Passes Pointess Legislation To End War In April Of Next Year In Domestic Issues, Politics, War On Terror, The Loony Left Say Anything The tally was 223 - 201. Linked below is the roll call. Four Republicans voted for withdrawal. Ten Democrats voted against it. Meaning more Democrats jumped ship from their party’s position on Iraq than Republicans. Make of that what you will. I’ve got two reactions. First, this is all about headlines. The Democrats know there’s no way this bill is passing. It has to get through the Senate first, and that means 60 votes to get cloture. Even if fewer Democrats in the Senate jump ship than in the House, they just don’t have the votes. And even if they did, Bush would veto it, meaning that it’d take 66 votes to get it back through. Again, the Dems don’t have the votes. So this was about more negative headlines and more undermining the war effort even as our troops fight and die to win this war the Democrats have no intention of letting us win. My second reaction is, why April of 2008? If we can’t possibly win this war, as pretty much every Democrat agrees is true, why wait until April of next year to end the war? Why not try to pass a bill pulling the troops out immediately so that no more die or are injured in this war we “can’t win?” Maybe because even more Democrats would jump ship if the bill was for immediate withdrawal. Meaning that a lot of Democrats are pretty skittish about giving up in Iraq. Which, in turn, means that public opinion against the war isn’t nearly as solid or overwhelming as the left and their mouthpieces in the media would have us believe. feeds.feedburner.com cnn.com clerk.house.gov

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