Pulling Out

The House of Representatives has rejected an amendment to the defense spending bill that would require The Administration to discuss, formulate, and propose a plan to pull US troops out of Iraq. There are no specifics needed in the bill, no timeline, and no binding legal terminology to it.

In other words, the House of Representatives refused to force The Administration to be held liable to even discuss bringing US troops home from the Invasion. Reasons given?

However, Republicans said the proposal, although it would have been non-binding, was ill-timed just before the national Memorial Day holiday honoring present-day and past sacrifices of American servicemen and women.

A strong response came from Congressman Duncan Hunter, Republican chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, who said the amendment would have sent the wrong message to insurgents and terrorists in Iraq, and to U.S. soldiers. "It's a message sender to our troops who might feel if this amendment should pass, that the resolve of the American people is fading away. This is precisely the kind of message we do not want to send to friend and foe alike, and certainly not to the 140-thousand Americans serving presently in Iraq who feel that the country is strongly behind them," he said.

That it is ill-timed and that it will "send the wrong messages." These are moronic justifications for what should be obvious reasons- but the primary reason is that they are simply justifications and not veritable reasons to prevent even the consideration of leaving Iraq from discussion at all. It is clear that the only thing being accomplished is leaving The Administration as much room as necessary to make no committments to leave Iraq- which, some would say, tends to make one wonder if they ever will, or if they ever intended to.