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Friday, February 16, 2007

Resolution "disapproving" of Iraq troop surge PASSES

UPDATE below.

As we reported was likely to happen in today's paper, not one of Greater Cincinnati's all Republican delegation voted in favor of it.

Just to clarify: That means Reps. John Boehner of West Chester, Steve Chabot of Westwood, Jean Schmidt of Miami Township, Mike Turner of Centerville and Geoff Davis of Hebron, Ky., all voted "no" on the resolution.

In fact, every Republican member of Ohio's congressional delegation - except Rep. Steve LaTourette of northeastern Ohio - voted AGAINST it. Every single Democrat on the Ohio delegation, however, voted FOR it.

Check out the Roll Call vote for yourself HERE.

Boehner's statement after the vote:

“Republicans may have lost the vote on this non-binding resolution, but we won the debate.

Over the course of this week, the American people heard two very different messages from the House of Representatives: one from Democrats that destined the cause of freedom to certain failure, and one from Republicans that offered a compelling case on the disastrous consequences of anything short of victory.

Indeed, for the sake of our security and that of future American generations, victory is our only option in this global war against radical Islamic terrorists. Republicans know our troops are up to the task, and we will stand strong in the coming weeks to ensure they have full, complete and unfettered access to the resources they need to achieve victory. The American people will not support a ‘slow-bleed’ policy that cuts off funding and reinforcements for our troops in harm’s way.”


3 Comments:

at 10:33 PM, February 16, 2007 Anonymous Anonymous said...

"victory is our only option in this global war against radical Islamic terrorists"

Does anybody disagree with this? Anybody?

Of course not. The disagreement is in HOW we win the global war on terror and quite frankly Mr. Boehner, your ideas aren't working...

 
at 6:03 AM, February 21, 2007 Anonymous Anonymous said...

10:33 is right on target. more to the point the neoclowns have had 5 years to do something and have failed miserably. now all they can do is get in the way of the newly elected congress.

 
at 1:16 PM, February 21, 2007 Anonymous Anonymous said...

So, Mr. Boehner, Mr. Chabot, Mr. Davis et al. want us to keep doing the same thing over and over again. Suppose we kill 1,000,000 insurgents while losing "only" 58,000 U.S. troops. Guess what-- We still lose. Vietnam II. (Who votes for these Republican ignoramuses, anyway?)

 
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