How Odd/Raw Story -IRAQ PULLOUT VOTE FAILS (Is is over?)

[kpete]

House GOP seeks quick veto of Iraq pullout

By LIZ SIDOTI, Associated Press Writer
Friday, November 18th, 2005 03:13 PM (PST)

WASHINGTON (AP) - House Republicans maneuvered for swift rejection Friday of any notion of immediately pulling U.S. troops out of Iraq, sparking a nasty, sometimes personal debate over the war and a Democratic lawmaker's own call for withdrawal.

Furious Democrats accused the GOP of orchestrating a political stunt, leaving little time for debate and changing the meaning of a withdrawal resolution offered by Democratic Rep. John Murtha of Pennsylvania.

For those reasons, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi sent word to rank-and-file Democrats to vote - with the Republicans - against immediate withdrawal of American troops.

Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., said of the nonbinding resolution, "We want to make sure that we support our troops that are fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan. We will not retreat."

Democrats went to the floor to denounce the vote, being staged before Congress left Washington for a two week break. And they gave Murtha a standing ovation as he entered the chamber Friday during the Iraq debate and took his customary corner seat.

http://www.thenewstribune.com/24hour/front/story/2915302p-11577199c.html

[AuntPatsy]

1. ? Is this live?

[kpete]

2. I thought so

[meganmonkey]

3. Either they are psychic

or they are taking a major risk with that headline...

The debate is happening as we speak, the vote has not occurred yet.

[stop the bleeding]

4. somebody better let the AP know about CSPAN n/t

[Ladyhawk]

6. LOL! n/t

[uppityperson]

5. Still going on, still talking, vote later tonight

[notadmblnd]

7. What does RawStory got to do with this?

this is your link http://www.thenewstribune.com/24hour/front/story/2915302p-11577199c.htmland it looks like an AP article not a RawStory article?

[kpete]

9. When I posted this earlier,

I got the story. Now I just get a registration form, but Raw Story still has their headline, and I got the story free.

[Vincardog]

8. OK so the RePigLickins want to defeat their own Resolution. BFD

Murtha offered a resolution that would force the president to withdraw the nearly 160,000 troops in Iraq "at the earliest practicable date." It would establish a quick-reaction force and a nearby presence of Marines in the region. It also said the U.S. must pursue stability in Iraq through diplomacy.

But House Republicans planned to put to a vote - and reject - their own symbolic alternative resolution that simply said: "It is the sense of the House of Representatives that the deployment of United States forces in Iraq be terminated immediately."

[WiseButAngrySara]

10. Live Now on C-Span. Look at the time of the Raw Story...3:00pm. The

word 'immediate' was taken out of the Resolution. (IMO)

[AuntPatsy]

13. Does anyone understand how they could have know before

or is this something done earlier but awfully similar?????????

[AuntPatsy]

11. They just now gave Murthar a standing ovation this was written over

an hour ago? i am confused?

[AuntPatsy]

12. This is odd, kicking it so someone can tell me if I am just confused

that this should not have been known earlier than it supposedly occurred?

[Mr_Spock]

14. Is anybody here paying attention?????? It's pre-determined!!

Read the damned post people!

Jesus Christ!! People here are fucking dense tonight!