[NYTr] Demopublicans Sabotage (AGAIN) PHONY Effort to Force Troop Withdrawal

[All the News That Doesn't Fit]

[The PHONY DEM PLAN to "force troop withdrawal" has been quashed
by the GOP in the Senate.  The GOP & the Dems are WORKING HAND IN GLOVE
TO CONTINUE TO WAR. THEY ARE, AFTER ALL, THE ONE PARTY WITH TWO NAMES.

IF THE DEMS WERE SERIOUS, THEY WOULD SIMPLY REFUSE TO PASS ANY FUNDING
BILL. NO FUNDING? NO WAR. 

IMPEACH THE WHOLE ROTTEN LOT OF THEM! 

As usual, Reuters is playing straight-man to the treasonous traitors,
claiming the Dems have "tried repeatedly to limit the war."-NY Transfer]


sent by MichaelP

Reuters - Nov 16, 2007
http://uk.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUKN1637966420071116?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews

Senate Repubs block Iraq funding tied to withdrawal plan

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senate Republicans on Friday blocked a $50 
billion Iraq war bill that included a troop pullout plan, killing the 
latest Democratic attempt to end the war while keeping up the fight
over its funding.

Despite passionate appeals by Democrats, who noted that 2007 had been
the deadliest year for U.S. troops in Iraq so far, Republicans stopped
the proposal that had passed the House of Representatives on a largely 
partisan vote on Wednesday.

The measure needed 60 votes to pass under Senate rules; it only got 53 
votes, with 45 senators voting against, all but two of them Republicans.

The bill would have given President George W. Bush about a quarter of
the $196 billion he wants for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan in
fiscal 2008, while setting a goal that all U.S. combat soldiers
withdraw from Iraq by December 15, 2008.

"What will it take to end this war? How many lives, how many limbs, how 
many broken families, how many innocent victims?" the Senate's No. 2 
Democrat, Dick Durbin of Illinois, asked. Over 850 U.S. soldiers have
died this year.

"We know the president will not do this, but it is within our power" to 
start bringing U.S. troops home, Durbin argued.

Republicans responded that the Pentagon needed the money and this was
the wrong time to meddle in Iraq military strategy just when levels of 
violence there were falling.

Democrats have tried repeatedly [BULLSHIT!!!]to limit the war this year,
and Republicans promised to keep blocking their attempts. The narrowly
divided Senate, where 60 of 100 votes are often required to advance
legislation, has been the graveyard for most efforts.