Posted by
arandomguy on Thursday, March 15, 2007 11:54:35 PM
Pursuing a course that fulfills Diane Feinstein's promise 2 months ago that more "forceful" legislation would follow if the non-binding resolution were voted down, the Democrats introduced a resolution for a vote today that would call for a pullout of Iraq troops by March 31, 2008, and would have it start within 120 days. Republicans easily blocked this resolution in a 50 - 48 vote, that was 12 short of the 60 needed to end debate. The Democrats are realizing that it is not easy to legislate for a country, and that it is equally difficult to infringe on the President's constitutional prerogative.
In the House however, the House Appropriations committe voted 36 - 28 to recommend a bill that would call for troop withdrawal by September 1, 2008. They brushed off a veto threat from the President, and overcame opposition by Republicans who were rightfully against this measure.
This may pass the House, because the filibuster doesn't exist in House rules. However I suspect the president will veto it (he said as much), and they don't have nearly enough votes to override the veto. This just shows more setbacks to Democratic plans, and shows once and for all that they cannot and will not stop this war, because the American people do not want to do so.
This war must be fought, and we must destroy the enemy. If we do not, the consequences will be catastrophic. We MUST NOT hand Iraq over to Al Qaeda, and it angers me to no end that this is precisely what the Democrats want to do.