Democrats Pass Retreat Bill
WASHINGTON — A sharply divided House brushed aside a veto threat Wednesday and passed legislation that would order President Bush to begin withdrawing troops from Iraq by Oct. 1.
The 218-208 vote came as the top U.S. commander in Iraq told lawmakers the country remained gripped by violence but was showing some signs of improvement.
Passage puts the bill on track to clear Congress by week's end and arrive on the president's desk in coming days as the first binding congressional challenge to Bush's handling of the conflict now in its fifth year.
"Our troops are mired in a civil war with no clear enemy and no clear strategy for success," said House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer.
Republicans promised to stand squarely behind the president in rejecting what they called a "surrender date" handed to the enemy.
"Al-Qaida will view this as the day the House of Representatives threw in the towel," said Rep. Jerry Lewis of California, ranking Republican on the House Appropriations Committee.
This will give those pathetic losers one of their two choices for defeat in Iraq. If Bush veto's the bill, which he has said he will, they will get Murtha's "Slow Bleed" defeat. If he doesn't veto, they get the "Cut and Run" defeat. Either way they are begging for our American military to be defeated in Iraq. I hope every single person that voted for these animals suffers because of it. If we have another attack on our soil, I hope it's at a Democrat convention.
They should be held accountable for their actions and suffer the consequences of their decision.
The following table is the YES votes for the Iraq emergency appropriations bill.
| Abercrombie Ackerman Allen Altmire Andrews Arcuri Baca Baird Baldwin Bean Becerra Berkley Berman Berry Bishop (GA) Bishop (NY) Blumenauer Boswell Boucher Boyd (FL) Boyda (KS) Brady (PA) Braley (IA) Brown, Corrine Butterfield Capps Capuano Cardoza Carnahan Carney Carson Castor Chandler Clarke Clay Cleaver Clyburn Cohen Conyers Cooper Costello Courtney Cramer Crowley Cuellar Cummings Davis (AL) Davis (CA) Davis (IL) DeFazio DeGette Delahunt DeLauro Dicks Dingell Doggett Donnelly Doyle Edwards Ellison Ellsworth Emanuel Engel Eshoo Etheridge Farr Fattah Filner Frank (MA) Giffords Gilchrest Gillibrand Gonzalez | Gordon Green, Al Green, Gene Grijalva Gutierrez Hall (NY) Hare Harman Hastings (FL) Herseth Sandlin Higgins Hill Hinchey Hinojosa Hirono Hodes Holden Holt Honda Hooley Hoyer Inslee Israel Jackson (IL) Jackson-Lee (TX) Jefferson Johnson (GA) Johnson, E. B. Jones (NC) Jones (OH) Kagen Kanjorski Kaptur Kennedy Kildee Kilpatrick Kind Klein (FL) Langevin Lantos Larsen (WA) Larson (CT) Levin Lipinski Loebsack Lofgren, Zoe Lowey Lynch Mahoney (FL) Maloney (NY) Markey Matsui McCarthy (NY) McCollum (MN) McDermott McGovern McIntyre McNerney Meehan Meek (FL) Meeks (NY) Melancon Miller (NC) Miller, George Mitchell Mollohan Moore (KS) Moore (WI) Moran (VA) Murphy (CT) Murphy,Patrick Murtha Nadler | Napolitano Neal (MA) Oberstar Obey Olver Ortiz Pallone Pascrell Pastor Payne Pelosi Perlmutter Peterson (MN) Pomeroy Price (NC) Rahall Rangel Reyes Rodriguez Ross Rothman Roybal-Allard Ruppersberger Rush Ryan (OH) Salazar Sánchez, Linda T. Sanchez, Loretta Sarbanes Schakowsky Schiff Schwartz Scott (GA) Scott (VA) Serrano Sestak Shea-Porter Sherman Shuler Sires Skelton Slaughter Smith (WA) Snyder Solis Space Spratt Stupak Sutton Tanner Tauscher Thompson (CA) Thompson (MS) Tierney Towns Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Van Hollen Velázquez Visclosky Walz (MN) Wasserman Schultz Watson Watt Waxman Weiner Welch (VT) Wexler Wilson (OH) Wu Wynn Yarmuth |
All, except two, are Democrats. The traitors are Rep. Wayne Gilchrest (R-MD) and Walter Jones (R-NC). I should note that some Democrats voted No on this bill, among them is Dennis Kucinich (L-OH). The L stands for Lunatic. This man has lost his mind. He voted No because he wants to pull out now. His parents should've done the same thing.
The Dems that voted No on the bill: John Barrow (D-GA), Dan Boren (D-OK), Barbara Lee (D-CA), John Lewis (D-GA), Jim Marshall (D-GA), Jim Matheson (D-UT), Michael McNulty (D-NY), Michael Michaud (D-ME), Gene Taylor (D-MS), Maxine Waters (D-CA), and Lynn Woolsey (D-CA). I'm not sure how many of these Dems voted no because it was the right thing to do, or because they want an immediate retreat.
