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Iraq Pullout Rejected in Rancorous Vote
Sat Nov 19, 7:31 PM
Cars pass in front of the U.S. Capital as members of Congress debate a resolution of immediately pulling U.S. troops out of Iraq, Friday, Nov. 18, 2005, in Washington.(AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)
WASHINGTON - The Republican-controlled House spurned calls for an immediate pullout of troops from Iraq in a vote hastily arranged by the GOP that Democrats vociferously denounced as politically motivated.
"To cut and run would invite terrorism into our backyards, and no one wants to see troops fighting terrorism on American soil," Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., said Friday night after the House, as planned, rejected a GOP-written resolution for immediate withdrawal. The vote, held as lawmakers rushed toward a two-week Thanksgiving break, was 403-3.
Sat Nov 19, 7:31 PM
Cars pass in front of the U.S. Capital as members of Congress debate a resolution of immediately pulling U.S. troops out of Iraq, Friday, Nov. 18, 2005, in Washington.(AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)
WASHINGTON - The Republican-controlled House spurned calls for an immediate pullout of troops from Iraq in a vote hastily arranged by the GOP that Democrats vociferously denounced as politically motivated.
"To cut and run would invite terrorism into our backyards, and no one wants to see troops fighting terrorism on American soil," Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., said Friday night after the House, as planned, rejected a GOP-written resolution for immediate withdrawal. The vote, held as lawmakers rushed toward a two-week Thanksgiving break, was 403-3.
Say it ain't so!
The pubbies calling for immediate withdraw? It can't be... .it must be some kind of political stunt!!