GOP senators offer new stance on Iraq (end to U.S. combat in Iraq after Bush leaves office)

[sabra]

Source: AP

WASHINGTON - A small group of Republicans facing election fights next year have rallied around war legislation they think could unite the GOP: a call for an end to U.S. combat in Iraq, but not until President Bush is out of office.

The legislation was deemed essentially a nonstarter by Democrats Friday and underscored the difficulty Congress has in striking a bipartisan compromise on war policy. What attracts Democrats has repelled Republiicans and vice versa, making it impossible so far to find a middle ground.

"To try to put this until after the election, rather than a reasonable period of completion, I believe would be to unneccessarily introduce a political element to what is a bipartisan effort," said Sen. Carl Levin of Michigan, Democratic chairman of the Armed Services Committee.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070928/ap_on_go_co/us_iraq_1

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1. Thats the stupidest damn thing I have heard (since yesterday)

without looking one can easily surmise that patriotic christian conservative republicans afraid of losing their seats of power made the proposal. I wonder if they ran it past their boss limbaugh? Would he not label them phoney legislators?

[autorank]

2. Serve the president's politics, sacrifice the soldiers lives. n/t

[acmavm]

3. Gutless opportunistic cretins. Too cowardly to take on their

boss? Don't want to rile the crowd and say outright we gotta get out but this bastard is too damn crazy to let us do it?

Anyway, shouldn't they be saying 'when Cheney leaves office'?

[Nickster]

4. And who will be the first Democratic legislator to call this what is? Political posturing that is

putting our troops in harms way so that the GOP can avoid having the burden of a failed war put on their time in the White House? Kick the can down the curb, let the Democratic President pick it up and then point fingers and attack that President mercilessly so that they can get another Puke back into the White House. Is it really that hard to see through their crap?

Our guys need to be on the attack and call them out for this.

[Kahuna]

5. Wow. Just wow.

:grr:

[tanyev]

6. Are they skeered of him? Even after Rove left?

[cyclezealot]

7. so the gopers think it's ok to just waste lives for the nest 15 months.

[seafan]

8. Are these GOP fools finally realizing that they are going down with USS Bush no matter what they do?

GOP senators offer new stance on Iraq

By ANNE FLAHERTY, Associated Press Writer
September 28, 2007

WASHINGTON - A small group of Republicans facing election fights next year have rallied around war legislation they think could unite the GOP: a call for an end to U.S. combat in Iraq, but not until President Bush is out of office.

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They are the biggest fools of all.


The ONLY, I repeat, ONLY way they have a glimmer of a chance of survival will be to help send US Marshals to remove Bush/Cheney from power, and do it before those MF'ers waltz away next year.

[KansDem]

9. I think this is a great idea!

...providing they remove him from office today! :grr:

[rodeodance]

10. REMINDER-----our troops are DYING and being injured!

[Tempest]

11. They want to be able to blame the Democratic president for the pullout

Sorry, no dice.

[rodeodance]

12. They do NOT even try to hide it anymore. REcall Bush waited till after election to diss Rummy?

[AngryAmish]

13. How does this effect Craig's extra wide stance?

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[radfringe]

15. a new stance? would that be the new improved wide stance? ..n/t

[superconnected]

16. Why not BEFORE bastard leaves office?

[daleo]

17. Translation: "We agree we made a mess"

"But we want someone else to clean the mess up, and we will blame the mess on them at that time."

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[City Lights]

19. These GOP cocktail weenies better not get away with playing politics

with the troops! If the Dems don't whack this softball out of the park, they should turn their bats over to someone else.

[Megahurtz]

20. Hmmm...And When Is He Going To

leave office? :tinfoilhat:

[Thor_MN]

21. Speaking from Minneapolis, we have had enough GOP stances (wide or otherwise), Thank you.

To the GOP, please, just go away - anywhere off the planet, thank you, I can't bear the thought that the US had polluted another country with our waste.

[HuffleClaw]

22. WTF ????

ok, that is just plain fucking stupid.