Even some REPUBLICANS in Congress start to vote for Afghanistan withdrawal timetable

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Nine Republican Congressmen voted to tie Afghanistan War funding to a timetable for withdrawal. I'm no fan of Obama's "Kum Bay Ah" approach to the GOP, but this is the kind of bipartisanship I can get behind. When the right wing lynch mob bloodlust starts to cool, the party is almost over. But without a unified GOP on this issue, who will the corporate-owned Democrats hide behind as they try to justify continuing the war?

increase in Afghanistan. But there was considerable opposition to giving the President a blank check. One hundred sixty-two House members supported an amendment that would have tied the funding to a withdrawal timetable. One hundred members voted for another amendment that would have rejected the $33 billion for the 30,000 new troops already on their way to Afghanistan; that amendment would have required that the money be spent to redeploy our troops out of Afghanistan. Democrats voting for the second amendment included House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and nine Republicans. Both amendments failed to pass.

The new appropriation is in addition to the $130 billion Congress has already approved for Iraq and Afghanistan this year. And the 2010 Pentagon budget is $693 billion, more than all other discretionary spending programs combined.

http://www.zcommunications.org/losing-in-afghanistan-by-marjorie-cohn