By a vote of 284-129, the House of Representatives soundly defeated an amendment to establish a plan to withdraw US troops from Afghanistan. A slight plurality of Democrats supported the measure, with most of the leadership opposing. All Republicans except two voted in to oppose. Libertarian Justin Amash supported the measure. The amendment to the 2021 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) was offered by Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN).
President Trump declared in late May that he wanted to withdraw all US troops from Afghanistan before the November election. Since that time, Democratic leaders have shifted to an even more hawkish position, pulling out all the stops to prevent such a move. Much of the foreign policy of the Democratic leadership has been driven by opposition to Trump’s positions, rather than by what is best for the country or what the American people desire.
American troops have been fighting in Afghanistan for 19 years, with no progress in reducing violence.
This article was written while observing the voting on CSPAN. The House Clerk has not yet posted the roll-call vote. This will and any additional information will be added to the article when available.
Good thing those anti-war Trump supporters refuse to remove their globalist corporatist congressmen. Good thing the Donald will maintain the status quo so brilliantly against all the social forces trying to destroy it by putting up a fake fight against globalism while rallying the republicans back around to the globalist side with their every choice of representative…
If any of that changes the globalists may start worrying… but as it is they can put bullets in the family of a judge and get their retarded media to push a fantasy about some MGTOW gone rogue….
The Dems have voted in favor of prolonging the US instigated war on Afghanistan.
Progressive and independent should think twice before voting.
Jim Bim,
You damned right, we Progressives will think twice before voting — and right now, my thinking says I will vote Green.
Why shouldn’t we leave Afghanistan? Because – then we may as well leave the mid East also —- and if that, where would that leave Israel and their plans for further conquest — up the creek, that’s where. And that is what it is all about – pro-Israeli money for political campaigns.
Agree, and good choice, Jill Stein was my favorite in 2016.
The US badly needs a shakeup and a breakup with the 2 party ( two headed snake ) monopoly system and their political power.
Along with all but two of the republicans. If my math is correct, it looks like 126 democrats, 2 republicans and 1 libertarian voted for the measure.
Your math and observation is correct.
Omar and Trump on the same side for different reasons . Both are against the war in Afghanistan . While both the house republicans and democrats voted to stay in the war .
I am trying to find the actual roll call vote on congress.gov but I can’t find it. Does anyone have a link?
Here you go. My congresscritter a demodog voted for more war.
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/116-2020/h140
I wasnt talking about the NDAA vote. Im talking about the vote on the amendment that was nentioned in the article.
It’s an article inside the NDAA.
Oy vey.
? Israel is a major driver of this.
Pelosi and Hillary are running neck and neck in the voting for witch of the century. With Albright demanding to be included on the ballot.
Why do you feel the need to insult witches? Those three piles of human excrement don’t deserve to be treated as anything other than waste products to be flushed.
Who voted for and against.
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/116-2020/h140
Omar/Amash 2020.
Of course not. Its not poppy harvesting season yet…and then it all needs to be processed into heroin, then distributed out via the military bases…and that takes time.
At one time I would consider your comment absurd. But after years of research, its the only thing that makes sense. The US military has been protecting the opium trade for two centuries. Former Secretary of State John Kerry’s Forbes’ family fortune was made from opium.
Also, FDR’s grandpa was an opium kingpin in China.
I get the Republicans voting against it because they drink blood but the Democrats are only voting against it because Trump is for it. Idiots.
“Democrats are only voting against it because Trump is for it. Idiots.”
You give them the benefit is idiotism (Unless I miss the cynicism … ).
Maybe some are just idiots, but many are authentic pro-war. I guess that references are not needed, we all know the data, and that our involvement in wars only increased during 8 years of Democrat Obama.
So democrats drink blood too, and they like it.
Democrats drink blood, but they just put a paper bag over the bottle thinking no one will notice.
19 years,,WTF,,the GHOULS rule,,tough guy Prez proven impotent and flacid again!! USA for sure on the way down, if Korea, Russia and China made a coordinated non nuclear move to push the USA and NATO back,,game over,,USA folds and crashes.
How does this work? Isn’t he CIC? Out goes the order everybody on the bus we are leaving and there it is done?
The recent Afghan Inspector General’s Report loudly proclaimed that everything the military, state dept and Potus has said over the last 19 yrs has been a lie; but, it doesn’t matter because Israel has ordered us to stay in order to contain Iran. So it was one more of those “noble lies”.
The Democrats really are useless.
They control the House, and what do they do? They keep us in the wars and they vote to increase Pentagon funding.
That should not surprise us, since it is what the Obama Admin did too. In fact, it started new wars in Libya, Syria, Yemen, South Sudan, the Sahel, and of course Ukraine (amid lies and denial).
So what would Biden do? The same as Obama, the same as the House just did.
Useless. They offer no hope, just Not Trump as if they’d be different, while showing they are not.
19 years and still losing.