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In what can only be described as a cynical and partisan last minute stunt by the Republican-controlled House of Representative, GOP leaders have announced a sudden vote this evening on the “Murtha Resolution” which had called for the immediate phasing out of troops in Iraq and a deployment of a “quick-reaction U.S. force” of Marines in the region should trouble arise.<\/p>\n
The GOP-modified version of Murtha’s resolution, which had given numerous reasons for his call for a pull-out has starkly changed both the language and meaning of the original resolution in hopes that Republicans can force Democrats onto the record voting in favor of, or against, “immediate termination” of forces in Iraq.<\/p>\n
The BRAD BLOG<\/a> has obtained PDF versions of both the original Murtha Resolution [PDF]<\/a> as well as the 3-line GOP-Amended version [PDF]<\/a> version being put forward by House Leadership for the last minute vote this evening.<\/p>\n Congressman Murtha (D-PA) is a long time Iraq war hawk, strong advocate of the military and a combat veteran of both the Vietnam and Korean conflicts. In an emotional statement yesterday<\/a>, he had called for the pullout of U.S. troops from Iraq.<\/p>\n After the preamble in Murtha’s original resolution<\/b>, which gives numerous reasons to support his call for troop withdrawal, the following statement is made:<\/p>\n Section 1. The deployment of United States Forces in Iraq, by direction of Congress, is hereby terminated and forces involved are to be redeployed at the earliest practicable date.<\/p>\n Section 2. A quick-reaction U.S. force and an over-the-horizon presence of U.S. Marines shall be deployed in the region.<\/p>\n Section 3. The United States of America shall pursue security and stability in Iraq through diplomacy.<\/p><\/div>\n The GOP revision<\/b>, however, includes no preamble, and states that all troops will be removed immediately<\/i>. This is it, in its entirety:<\/p>\n 1 Resolved<\/i>, That it is the sense of the House of Representatives that the deployment of United States forces in Iraq be terminated immediately.<\/div>\n The AP has more<\/a> on the all-out political melee now occuring on the House floor…<\/p>\n MORE…<\/b> Debate\/Vote scheduled for 7pm ET … C-Span’s live coverage here<\/a>. (thanks for link to DaveF of Bare Knuckle Politics<\/a>!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In what can only be described as a cynical and partisan last minute stunt by the Republican-controlled House of Representative, GOP leaders have announced a sudden vote this evening on the “Murtha Resolution” which had called for the immediate phasing out of troops in Iraq and a deployment of a “quick-reaction U.S. force” of Marines […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Therefore be it Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of American in Congress assembled,<\/i> That:<\/p>\nExpressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the deployment of United States forces in Iraq be terminated immediately.<\/p>\n