Democrats win Senate vote on Iraq withdrawal date. McCain calls it "shameful"

[bigtree]

March 27, 2007

Senate Democrats Tuesday afternoon won a key vote that clears the way for setting a date by which most U.S. troops would be required to leave Iraq.

Democrats defeated by a vote of 50-48 the Republican effort to strip language from the $122 billion-dollar Iraq supplemental spending bill that would require most combat soldiers to leave Iraq within a year.

Democrats were unsure if they would prevail until the end of the vote.

“We don’t know how it’s going to turn out,” Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said. “We won’t know until the vote’s over.”

Reid said the legislation is “supported by the vast majority of the American people.”

But presidential hopeful Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said the bill “should be named the State Certain for Surrender Act,” adding that “a second-year cadet at West Point will tell you if you announce to the enemy that you’re leaving, it’s a recipe for defeat.”

McCain called the provision “one of the most shameful things I’ve ever seen.”

http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/democrats-win-senate-vote-on-iraq-withdrawal-date-2007-03-27.html

[Richardo]

1. So, Lieberman voted how?

Inquiring minds etc etc.

[Jacobin]

3. 3 guesses and the first two don't count

:-)

[Nutmegger]

5. He voted for war. [n\t]

[Richardo]

7. Any GOPs cross over?

[Jersey Devil]

11. Hagel and Gordon voted with Dems, Pryor with Repubs and

Joementum with Joementum

[Cha]

13. What? Does Pryor have a bunch

of warmongering diehards, who want to enlist, down there in Arkansas?

[IChing]

8. With McMark of Cain

[la la]

16. Excellent phrase-

'the mark of McCain'. Totally excellent.

Thanks

[Jersey Devil]

9. He went with the Joementum

The effect of the timeline would be to “snatch defeat from the jaws of progress in Iraq,” agreed (with McCain) Lieberman...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17811336/

[Jacobin]

2. clue phone ringing for McCain

Its OVER baby. We already lost.

Deal with it.

[ixion]

4. no, John, defending an illegal invasion after having been a POW is the most shameful

IMO.

[Vox Acerbus]

6. Guess McCain's time as a POW made him love the battlefront

Why is it "shameful" John? Can't stand denying more people the opportunity to be tormented like you were?

I think that his time in the Hanoi Hilton fried his brain. The man's a kook. Six years ago I would have seriously considered voting for him. Now the only place he should be is in a mental hospital.

[in_cog_ni_to]

10. Hasn't that dumb shit put 2 and 2 together yet? THE PEOPLE want an end to the illegal invasion

and HE is going to LOSE the repuke nomination BECAUSE he supports it! Keep on slapping the people John and you'll have your ass handed to you in '08.

[BlueManDude]

12. A second-year cadet at West Point wouldn't have gotten into this mess asshole McCain.

[The Stranger]

14. McCain is a traitor.

The nation is ruled by the people. If he fights against that and against national interests, he is nothing but a traitor.

[Disturbed]

15. McLame is shameless.

He is a loser and the more he spouts, the more he shows how much of a loser he is.

[Johonny]

17. enemy?

“a second-year cadet at West Point will tell you if you announce to the enemy that you’re leaving, it’s a recipe for defeat.”


Since it's a civil war and both fraction seem to have no problem blowing up our troops, I demand McCain to define the enemy in Iraq so we can defeat it?

[devilgrrl]

18. Yeah, what a shame that the soldiers won't be kept prisoner and tortured for 5 years!

I swear, McCain got off on being tortured - he's a masochist of the sickest kind.

[jackstraw45]

19. What do you expect from a Bush-hugger?

[Marr]

20. The fool will be spouting "we coulda won, except for the Democrats" for the rest

of his life. It's bullshit and he knows it, but that's McCain for you. He's just playing politics.

[bigtree]

21. Majority in US backs 2008 pullout from Iraq

WASHINGTON: A majority of Americans favour pulling US troops out of Iraq by fall 2008, but oppose cutting off funds to the 140,000 soldiers there, according to a poll published on Tuesday.

The Gallup-USA Today poll came as Democrats were pushing a bill which ties funding for the war to a timetable to withdraw US combat troops from Iraq by August 31, 2008. Of the 1,007 people polled over the weekend, 60 percent support withdrawal from Iraq in 2008, but 61 percent opposed cutting funding for the troops in the country, which is in the grip of a violent insurgency that has killed hundreds of people a week.

Fifty-three percent of those polled believed the insurgency would grow if the number of US soldiers in the volatile capital was lowered. Troops have been there since the US led an invasion in 2003 to oust the late dictator Saddam Hussein.

The poll showed 34 percent approving of Bush’s strategy in Iraq. Fifty-six percent thought the US “made a mistake” in sending troops to Iraq in the first place.


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