Now Playing: A Real Debate Over the Iraq War
The House of Representatives has begun going where the Senate feared to tread – a debate over the Iraq war — as sectarian strife in Baghdad further escalated with a series of blasts in a Shiite market that killed 70 people.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi led the way today as the Democratic-controlled House embarked on the debate, declaring that the public has decided that President Bush’s policies “have not worked, will not work and must be changed.”
A vote is expected by Friday on a nonbinding resolution that opposes the president’s decision to “surgeâ€? the number of troops in Iraq while pledging support for the troops already there.
“I’m just not convinced that deploying 20,000 additional troops is going to resolve anything favorable for us,� said Representative Howard Coble, a North Carolina Republican, who estimated that 20 to 25 Republicans would vote for the resolution, although other estimates ran higher.
A similar measure was dead on arrival in the Senate last week after Republicans outfinessed Democrats and threatened to filibuster it.
Click here to read the text of the resolution. And here for more on the debate.
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2 Responses to “Now Playing: A Real Debate Over the Iraq War”
Its a useless gesture on the the part of Congress to issue a nonbinding resolution to Dubya. He’ll just smile, nod and ignore it like he did the Baker Commission report.
Everyone talks about the fact that there really was no real debate at the start of the war. But nobody discusses WHY? It is the 800 pound Gorilla in the Room.
Why?
Because the Malvo shootings blew the Iraq war debate right off the front page. They started blowing peoples heads off in the press the day the Iraq war debate started, they continued blowing peoples heads off in the press with a frenzy and a total media madness so intense that it the blocked out the rays of the sun itself,… until shortly after the Declaration of War.
For more read the following article.
Why Malvo?