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03-11-2010, 02:51 PM
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Subdivisions (1000+ posts) Thu Mar-11-10 01:18 PM
Original message
190 of our Democratic representatives voted for war - more than the Rs. THIS IS OUR WAR NOW!
Edited on Thu Mar-11-10 01:42 PM by Subdivisions
What started as an unjust War on Terror under a president who ascended to the office via a stolen election (twice) is now definitively OUR WAR! We OWN it. We can no longer pin this atrocity on bush/cheney, the Rs, or the neocons.
Every death; every drop of blood; every broken soldier; every broken home; ALL OF IT, from this point forward, is on our shoulders!
Results of the vote on the Kucinich resolution to end the war in Afghanistan:
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/vote.xpd?vote=h2010-98
Followed by a long list of how each voted.
onenote (1000+ posts) Thu Mar-11-10 01:25 PM
Response to Original message
1. More accurate: Twelve times as many Democrats voted to get out as repubs
Five repubs (or 2.8 percent of the total number of repubs in Congress) voted for the resoluton. Sixty (or around 24 percent) of the Democrats voted to get out.
Do you really think DUers are stupid enough to think that there is more support for getting out among repubs? So--they have the presidency, and the majority in both the house and the senate. 76% of the Democrats voted to stay in Afghanistan, but because the % of Republicans voting to stay in Afghanistan was higher than the Democrats %---- it isn't the Democrats war.
Mari333 (1000+ posts)
2. every one of the maggots who voted NAY
should be air dropped into the helmand province in Afghanistan with nothing more than a butter knife to protect them.
they would shit their armani suits.
war profiteers, every damned one of them.
They can all rot in hell.
harkadog (1000+ posts) Thu Mar-11-10 02:21 PM
Response to Reply #7
12. They voted for an illegal and unjust war.
Our objective was to remove the Taliban from power. We did that and from the point forward there was no justification for the war. I not going to call them names but they own this war now not Bush or anyone else.
berni_mccoy (1000+ posts) Thu Mar-11-10 02:24 PM
Response to Reply #12
15. That wasn't the objective, but thanks.
You've left off a tremendous part of the mission: stabilize the region and ensure that the Taliban/AQ are not able to regain control.
berni_mccoy (1000+ posts) Thu Mar-11-10 01:57 PM
Response to Original message
6. 31 Members of the Progressive Caucus voted against Kucinich's Resolution.
Let the crying begin--and then the angry denunciations will take over.
Subdivisions (1000+ posts) Thu Mar-11-10 01:18 PM
Original message
190 of our Democratic representatives voted for war - more than the Rs. THIS IS OUR WAR NOW!
Edited on Thu Mar-11-10 01:42 PM by Subdivisions
What started as an unjust War on Terror under a president who ascended to the office via a stolen election (twice) is now definitively OUR WAR! We OWN it. We can no longer pin this atrocity on bush/cheney, the Rs, or the neocons.
Every death; every drop of blood; every broken soldier; every broken home; ALL OF IT, from this point forward, is on our shoulders!
Results of the vote on the Kucinich resolution to end the war in Afghanistan:
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/vote.xpd?vote=h2010-98
Followed by a long list of how each voted.
onenote (1000+ posts) Thu Mar-11-10 01:25 PM
Response to Original message
1. More accurate: Twelve times as many Democrats voted to get out as repubs
Five repubs (or 2.8 percent of the total number of repubs in Congress) voted for the resoluton. Sixty (or around 24 percent) of the Democrats voted to get out.
Do you really think DUers are stupid enough to think that there is more support for getting out among repubs? So--they have the presidency, and the majority in both the house and the senate. 76% of the Democrats voted to stay in Afghanistan, but because the % of Republicans voting to stay in Afghanistan was higher than the Democrats %---- it isn't the Democrats war.
Mari333 (1000+ posts)
2. every one of the maggots who voted NAY
should be air dropped into the helmand province in Afghanistan with nothing more than a butter knife to protect them.
they would shit their armani suits.
war profiteers, every damned one of them.
They can all rot in hell.
harkadog (1000+ posts) Thu Mar-11-10 02:21 PM
Response to Reply #7
12. They voted for an illegal and unjust war.
Our objective was to remove the Taliban from power. We did that and from the point forward there was no justification for the war. I not going to call them names but they own this war now not Bush or anyone else.
berni_mccoy (1000+ posts) Thu Mar-11-10 02:24 PM
Response to Reply #12
15. That wasn't the objective, but thanks.
You've left off a tremendous part of the mission: stabilize the region and ensure that the Taliban/AQ are not able to regain control.
berni_mccoy (1000+ posts) Thu Mar-11-10 01:57 PM
Response to Original message
6. 31 Members of the Progressive Caucus voted against Kucinich's Resolution.
Let the crying begin--and then the angry denunciations will take over.