This afternoon the House of Representative passed their non-binding resolution condemning the actions of the President in Iraq and specifically against the escalation of the unwinnable conflict. Members gave dozens of speeches for and against. Some spoke forcefully, some talked about their 6yr olds and others slandered Abe Lincoln.
At the end of the day the vote was 246 to 187, with 17 Republicans throwing their party allegiance to the wayside and standing up for what is right. Some Republicans claim the bill has no teeth while fighting against it tooth and nail. The reason for that is because the bark of the bill foretells the bite to come.
From the SF Chronicle:
The House sent President Bush a double-barreled confrontational message today, telling him it opposes his latest buildup of troops in Iraq and in the next few weeks will try to start curtailing military operations in the war zone.
The Democratic-led House approved 246 to 182 a nonbinding resolution expressing the support of Congress for the U.S. troops serving in Iraq while opposing Bush's plan to send 21,500 more combat troops into the war.
We will have to wait for what these curtailments involve in the matter of actual policy and abatement of the President's actions. Ultimately they need to cut the funding of the monstrous and corrupt war machine that is overseen by Republicans, military contractors like Halliburton and the defense industry as a whole that have wasted billions of dollars in the name of greed.
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