Senate GOP Blocks U.S. Troop Withdrawal

  So what's new, right? As is usual with the Republicans in the Senate, they shut down the Democratic proposal which would have required Bush to begin bringing our sons and daughters, husbands and wives, home from Iraq within 120 days with a complete pullout by April 30, 2008.

    There were 4 exceptions to the Republican rule who did not see eye to eye with the rest of the GOP. They were Sens. Gordon Smith of Oregon, Olympia Snowe of Maine and Chuck Hagel of Nebraska and Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, who support a deadline on this war.

The 52-47 vote fell short of the 60 votes needed to cut off debate under Senate rules.

ANNE FLAHERTY, Associated Press Writer via Yahoo News

Other GOP members, while uneasy about the war, said they could not support legislation that would force Bush to adhere to a firm pullout date.

"The amendment tells our enemies when they can take over in Iraq," said Sen. Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., who is up for re-election next year.

The bill "is the wrong approach at the wrong time," he added.

Addressing troops in Afghanistan, the Pentagon's top general said that while it's fine for Americans to debate whether to continue the campaign in Iraq, the global war on terror will compel the nation to fight somewhere for at least another 20 to 30 years.

"We can vote to fight it in one place or another. We can do whatever it it is we want to do to have a dialogue about how to fight this enemy," Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said in a meeting with soldiers that also was aired live for reporters at the Pentagon. "But the bottom line is that as long as our enemy is sworn to destroy our way of life, we are going to be in a war."

   Since it has been reported in the past that our enemies in Iraq ( al Qaeda ) only make up 10% of the Iraqi population, I do not see them taking over the country anytime soon. They may be causing alot of disruption in Iraq, but taking over? Give me a fucking break!

   Gen. Pace needs to grow a set of balls and maybe try to be his own man instead of one of the White House propaganda mouthpieces. Our enemies are not sworn to destroy our way of life General, they are sworn to destroy our way of life that we keep trying to shove down their own throats in their own countries.

   Our enemies also know that the only reason the United States in in the middle east is because of Israel crying to us all of the time and because of the oil that the United States would like to steal from Iraq, and Iran, and...

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