A 93-321 House vote today ended the Kucinich-Jones-Paul resolution calling for an end to the nearly decade-long war in Afghanistan. The vote saw a massive majority of Republicans and a narrowing majority of Democrats approving the continuation of the conflict.
The vote was surely a contentious one, and that was made all the more clear when Gen. David Petraeus took it upon himself to directly insert himself in the political debate, insisting the resolution would give “victory” to Osama bin Laden.
But in the end, the House of Representatives voted, as was expected, hugely in favor of war. It was slightly closer than the 2010 version, yet it can’t be ignored that over 75% of the “representatives” still support the war when a solid 64% of American voters were shown in the most recent poll to be firmly against its continuation.
With high profile Republicans like Gov. Haley Barbour openly questioning the wisdom of the war, it seems clear that House Republicans’ failure to muster more than eight votes is a sign that they are already falling out of touch with the wishes of the public which just months ago put them back in the majority.
Thank you republicans and thank you democrats.., Hurry Generals and militarism regimes you will be continuing killing children until the end of time, be proud you are doing a good job, your machinery is working and you have job for few more years to come.., you shares are safe and don´t worry Paul Wolfowitz and AIPC sooner or later you will have another mission planing the wars with Russian and China.
So much for "listening" to your constituents…perhaps they only listen when it lines up with their agenda, eh? It is convenient though that House Representatives are up for re-election every 2 years. Perhaps if those voters who sent them to DC to do what their constituents wanted vote them immediately out of office those that survive might just get the message…Nah….what was I thinking.
Of the 8 GOP members who voted for this, none of them were first termers. My dad, very involved in the local Tea Party Movement, is very upset about that.
Listening to the debate on the House floor today it was amazing listening to the GOP defending President Obama, even praising him. I quite frankly see little chance of them winning in 2012.
Would be great to see a legitimate 3rd party candidate come along.
War is a business. "Collateral damage" has been successful in sanitizing murder. Our media serve this business by numbing not very sharp american minds wrapping any notion of war in flag, God and patriotism. Those who scream the loudest about the necessity of the war, here and in other "democratic" countries, are not those who fight, die or spend the rest of their lives in misery of injuries.
They and their family members should be asked to go to the front line and show us how much they believe in this and other wars. Otherwise they remain a quintessential definition of "coward".
One redeeming facet of all this is that what a politician has to do to get elected these days, both Republicans and Democrats alike, is that to American public in regards to the wars overseas is that they have to lie.
That is lie about being against the war otherwise they can't get elected..
Open letter to Antiwar.com..
I need to inform you that there is something wrong with my postings, either Antiwar.com knowingly is removing it or Mr. Jason Ditz not posting or removing my posting after when is published. Non the less, it seams to me that Antiwar.com has become a Islamic Brotherhood supporter then being a unbiased organization and against US and EU created wars all together.., is antiwar.com losing supporter supporting the cause by contributing their writing not being posted or removed? In the other hand it also seams to me that Antiwar.com only publishes writings by those who are well known to Antiwar.com and perhaps contribute economically and therefore they are first in line.., either way antiwar.com is a good source of information considering that all your news are a copy of news paper and news agencies.
So where is the notion that antiwar.com is unbiased and not a ”Islamic brotherhood antiwar ” organization. I am not pro Islamic Brotherhood nor I support war and defiantly anti Israeli apartheid but I do support the facts that are presented by all those news agencies and write about them, gathering information and then writing about the issues.., for example…, After carefully studying the facts presented by your source of news I come to conclusion that.., Libyan rebels are nothing but a link to Islamic Brotherhood from Egypt and said so in my writing.., at the same time I think that Hillary Clinton, Sarkozi, senator Kerry and others been convinced that they well get a share of Libyan oil if Hillary Clinton support the Islamic Brotherhood which in return they will leave Israel alone.., when and if they become part of Egyptian government.., that which I am sure is been the reason for Mr. Jason Ditz posting my writing but removing it shortly after.., at the same I am convinced that all that support and engagements of Arab governments wanting to be part of bombing squad bombing Libya is yet another attempt by US and EU making sure that Arab nationals are at war with each other then defending themselves against US, EU and Israel, one more thing.., there is a mystery which is the timing of when a posting done.., mine been saying 59 minutes ago .., which makes me wonder when posting is done how is it possible that is done 59 minutes ago…? having said that, Antiwar.com for sure is changing and I don’t want to be part of that change.
Yep, the US congress critters are lining up to buy their shares of US defense stocks. Again.