Quagmire

Playing politics with our military strategies is bullsh*t!
For either Party to be doing this is shameful and wrong and damaging to our troops.
Iraq is NOT the quagmire. Washington, DC is!

House GOP Seeks Quick Vote on Iraq Pullout
Nov 18, 3:37 PM (ET)
By LIZ SIDOTI
WASHINGTON (AP) - House Republicans, sensing an opportunity for political advantage, maneuvered for a quick vote and swift rejection Friday of a Democratic lawmaker's call for an immediate troop withdrawal from Iraq.
"We want to make sure that we support our troops that are fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan," said Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill. "We will not retreat."
House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi had no immediate reaction to the planned vote.
The GOP leadership decided to act little more than 24 hours after Rep. Jack Murtha, a hawkish Democrat with close ties to the military, said the time had come to pull out the troops. By forcing the issue to a vote, Republicans placed many Democrats in a politically unappealing position - whether to side with Murtha and expose themselves to attacks from the White House and congressional Republicans, or whether to oppose him and risk angering the voters that polls show want an end to the conflict.

Read more if you can stomach it.
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20051118/D8DV3NHG7.html