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(Continued from "Hawkish" Dem: Time To Cut And Run)

Michelle Malkin has all you really need to know about the Democrat's strategy for Iraq right here.

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Tim Saler at No End But Victory is live blogging the House debate here. Kit as Euphoric Reality is live-blogging her impression of the debate; click here and here.

I hadn't gotten around to mentioning No End But Victory on my blog yet. It's a great new group site that I highly recommend visiting several times a day like I will.

Don Surber has an excellent series of post on this subject here, here and here.

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Iraq withdrawal handily defeated

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The House late Friday overwhelmingly rejected calls for an immediate troop withdrawal from Iraq, a vote engineered by the Republicans that was intended to fail.

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The House voted 403-3 to reject a nonbinding resolution calling for an immediate troop withdrawal.

[Read the whole thing here.]

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Lawrence Kudlow and John Hinderaker don't think what happened tonight was all that big a deal. Personally, I think it was just what the country needed right now. Captain Ed seems to agree:

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The Republicans made the right move -- instead of debating the issue through the media, they took the Democratic demands and introduced it as a resolution for debate where rhetoric actually counts, and where both sides get equal time. In the Democratic world, that equates to something vaguely unfair. They tried to hide behind a procedural block, and when that didn't work, they screamed and hollered in support of the idea of withdrawal -- and then promptly voted against it when it counted.

No honor and no shame have the Democrats in these times, to their everlasting discredit. So much for no-confidence votes. None will stand for one even when handed the opportunity on a silver platter.

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I'll let Dafydd wrap it up for now:

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Well, the Murtha episode is all over but the shouting now... and expect plenty of that, as Republicans take to the weekend talk shows pointing out that the Democrats may talk a good fight about "a war we shouldn't even be in," but when actually put to a vote, they had to suck it up and admit the Republicans are right to stay the course.

And the Democrats will take to the airwaves whining that it was a totally unfair ambush to force them actually to vote on their defeatist and increasingly reality-challenged rhetoric.

So it goes.

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I just spent the last 45 minutes or so looking for a list of the scum who voted for the withdrawal resolution, and finally found this on  MSNBC:

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Three Democrats, Jose Serrano of New York, Robert Wexler of Florida and Cynthia McKinney of Georgia, voted for withdrawal. Six voted present: Reps. Jim McDermott of Washington, Jerrold Nadler of New York, Maurice Hinchey of New York, Michael Capuano of Massachusetts, Major Owens of New York and William Lacy Clay of Missouri.

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I've continued this post here.

Posted by Bill Faith on November 18, 2005 at 07:20 PM | Permalink

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