Zeev's Turnips Talk Politics (ZTTP)

[niteowl]

hap, you are not even being clever in your deception.

The Republican stunt is a slap in the face to all the soldiers who have died, are dying and who will live with the scars of war, both physical and emotional, for the rest of their lives. THIS IS NOT A GAME, HOW DARE THEY!

Murtha's resolution was to open a serious discussion for a plan to bring the troops home, they do not have the number of troops needed nor the equipment! Bush has no plan except to continue repeating the empty words of we will stay until the job is done.

Hunter's resolution was to play a game of gotcha. I know you enjoyed the video of Bush looking for WMD's under the table etc. so I can see how you would also enjoy this political maneuver.

TO THOSE WHO THINK THIS IS A GAME, IT IS NOT.


Text of the *real* Murtha resolution versus the text of the GOP sham:

Murtha's REAL resolution:

Whereas Congress and the American People have not been shown clear, measurable progress toward establishment of stable and improving security in Iraq or of a stable and improving economy in Iraq, both of which are essential to "promote the emergence of a democratic government";

Whereas additional stabilization in Iraq by U, S. military forces cannot be achieved without the deployment of hundreds of thousands of additional U S. troops, which in turn cannot be achieved without a military draft;

Whereas more than $277 billion has been appropriated by the United States Congress to prosecute U.S. military action in Iraq and Afghanistan;

Whereas, as of the drafting of this resolution, 2,079 U.S. troops have been killed in Operation Iraqi Freedom;

Whereas U.S. forces have become the target of the insurgency,

Whereas, according to recent polls, over 80% of the Iraqi people want U.S. forces out of Iraq;

Whereas polls also indicate that 45% of the Iraqi people feel that the attacks on U.S. forces are justified;

Whereas, due to the foregoing, Congress finds it evident that continuing U.S. military action in Iraq is not in the best interests of the United States of America, the people of Iraq, or the Persian Gulf Region, which were cited in Public Law 107-243 as justification for undertaking such action;

Therefore be it Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That:

Section 1. The deployment of United States forces in Iraq, by direction of Congress, is hereby terminated and the forces involved are to be redeployed at the earliest practicable date.

Section 2. A quick-reaction U.S. force and an over-the-horizon presence of U.S Marines shall be deployed in the region.

Section 3 The United States of America shall pursue security and stability in Iraq through diplomacy.


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The Republican sham resolution:


RESOLUTION

Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that
the deployment of United States forces in Iraq be terminated immediately.

Resolved, That it is the sense of the House of Representatives that the deployment of United States forces
in Iraq be terminated immediately.

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