House will debate Iraq

[sabra]

http://www.thehill.com/thehill/export/TheHill/News/Frontpage/042706/news1.html

House will debate Iraq

House Majority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) told Republican colleagues yesterday that they will have a full and lengthy floor debate on the Iraq war, a dramatic change of course for GOP leaders who had previously resisted Republican and Democratic calls for such a debate.

Four House Republicans have signed a Democratic-sponsored discharge petition that would begin 17 hours of debate over Iraq on the House floor. The Republicans signed on because GOP leaders had ignored their requests for a debate, said Rep. Walter Jones (R-N.C.), one of the four mavericks.

Boehner told colleagues about his plan for debate on Iraq yesterday morning during a closed-door meeting of the Republican Conference that was mostly devoted to discussing soaring gas prices. Boehner’s remarks, which were unexpected, caused a hush to fall over the audience, said Rep. Wayne Gilchrest (R-Md.), who attended the meeting and is one of the four GOP signatories to the Democratic discharge petition.

In an interview, Jones confirmed that Boehner promised a “lengthy debate on Iraq” during yesterday’s meeting.

[Sick_of_Rethuggery]

1. Any idea when? n/t

[callous taoboy]

2. Gee, putting policy before politics, or is it?

These incompetent, crass MEpublicans make one's head spin, no?

[blue america]

3. sure

"and lengthy floor debate on the Iraq war"

Will believe it when I see it.

[babylonsister]

4. Good. Thanks, sabra. nt

[Pierzin]

5. thanks sabra

It's about time.

[Daphne08]

6. Several hearings would be better. n/t

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

7. *yawn*

NOW they want to debate it? Jeez, just a FEW FUCKING YEARS too late... :mad: :mad: :mad:

[gratuitous]

8. My sentiment exactly

Not only years too late, but thousands of lives and hundreds of billions of dollars too late.

And this little gift will keep on giving for decades to come in ruined marriages, wasted, desperate lives, post-traumatic stress disorder, and revenge from the relatives and survivors of the people we're currently terrorizing.

[Daylin Byak]

9. Question...

Now will it be a "real" debate or will it be the same thing the repukes did last time this came up, do a little song and dance for John Murtha just to shut him up about troop withdrawl.

Just asking

[Demeter]

10. NOW They're Going to Debate Iraq????NOW????

After 2400 soldiers dead, God knows how many civilians, 3 years and uncounted (never mind uncollected) treasure spent, the GOP House is going to debate the wisdom of fighting a war of unprovoked aggression in the most unstable region of the world?

The wheels of Congress grind slowly, but...no, they just grind, and grind and grind, without anybody feeding any grain into them. What a waste of everything.