Congress Erupts in Partisan Fight Over War in Iraq

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The House and the Senate engaged in angry, intensely partisan debate on Thursday over the war in Iraq, as Republicans sought to rally support for the Bush administration's policies and exploit Democratic divisions in an election year shadowed by unease over the war.

It was one of the sharpest legislative clashes yet over the three-year- old conflict, and it came after three days in which President Bush and his aides have sought to portray Iraq as moving gradually toward a stable, functioning democracy, and to portray Democrats as lacking the will to see the conflict through to victory.

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Representative John P. Murtha, the Pennsylvania Democrat and Vietnam War veteran whose call for a speedy withdrawal of troops transformed the debate last year, rose repeatedly to tell Republicans, "Rhetoric does not solve the problem."

"They're fighting each other, and our troops are caught in between," Mr. Murtha said, referring to the sectarian violence cleaving Iraq.




http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/16/washington/16cong.html?hp&ex=1150430400&en=a37225ab27fe3d93&ei=5094&partner=homepage

[Bark Bark Bark]

1. Haven't You Heard Tony Snow?

Troops are just numbers.
The only time anyone pretends to give a damn is when we reach a 500-death benchmark.
That's the GOP version of "Support The Troops."

[Quetzal]

2. Murtha is right - let's have a real debate

All I hear coming from the Republican leadership are proclomations that they have a bigger cock.

[wizdum]

3. Murtha rocked the house - He was ALL STAR. The right was WRONG!!!

[Skittles]

4. this is what it has come to

our troops fighting and dying, thousands of innocent Iraqi civilians killed; this goes on EVER DAY while our elective representatives have a pissing contest over who can score the most political points. I AM DISGUSTED.