Friday - March 23, 2007

The Plan for Defeat Passes the House

The House today passed an appropriations bill calling for the U.S. to leave Iraq by September 2008.  History will show that the Democrats became the party of defeat today, voting to run in the face of Islamic terror.

The U.S. House of Representatives on Friday voted to impose a September 1, 2008, deadline for withdrawing all American combat troops from Iraq, prompting a quick veto promise from President George W. Bush.

In a mostly partisan 218-212 vote, House Democrats succeeded in attaching the deadline to legislation spending more than $124 billion in emergency funds, most of it for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan this year.

"The American people do not support a war without end and neither should this Congress," said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California, calling the Iraq war "a grotesque mistake."

The narrow margin of the vote was far short of what Democrats would need to override any presidential veto.

Luckily, the Democrats haven't the votes to override a presidential veto.  Unfortunately for America, the anti-war wing rules the Democrats.

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