DU this POLL! Do you favor Rep or Dem approach on Iraq

[i_c_a_White_Ghost]

Please DU:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10052525/

[ananda]

69% Dem ..

.. 31% Reep

Right now.

[raysr]

2. Check this out

WASHINGTON - The Republican-controlled Senate on Tuesday easily defeated a Democratic effort to call for President Bush to outline a timetable for a phased withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq.
The vote was 58-40 against a Democratic plan that the minority party's leadership advanced in the wake of declining public support for a conflict that has claimed more than 2,000 U.S. lives and cost more than $200 billion.
Republicans countered with their own alternative, urging that 2006 "should be a period of significant transition to full Iraqi sovereignty," with Iraqi forces taking the lead in providing security — a step lawmakers hope will speed a reduction of U.S. forces.
Given the Republican majority, passage seemed a certainty.
"They want an exit strategy, a cut-and-run exit strategy. What we are for is a successful strategy," said Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn.
Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said: "We want to change the course. We can't stay the course."
GOP leaders were trying to add their Iraq policy to a defense bill the Senate is hoping to complete work on as early as Tuesday.
Overall, the bill includes provisions that, taken together, mark an effort by the Senate to rein in some of the wide authority lawmakers gave the president following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
The measure includes White House-opposed language that would prohibit the cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment of detainees and standardize interrogation procedures used by U.S. troops. The Bush administration has threatened to veto any bill that includes language about the treatment of detainees, arguing it would limit the president's ability to prevent terrorist attacks.
Later Tuesday, the Senate was expected to add to the bill a proposal that would, in effect, endorse the Bush administration's military tribunals for prosecuting suspected foreign terrorists held at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Under a compromise reached by a bipartisan group of senators, those detainees would be able to appeal their status as "enemy combatants" and the rulings of U.S. military tribunals to a federal appeals court in Washington, D.C. That avenue would take the place of the one tool the Supreme Court gave detainees in 2004 to fight the legality of their detentions — the right to file habeas corpus petitions in any federal court.

[davidinalameda]

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Do you favor the Republican or Democratic approach on Iraq and troop withdrawal? * 8715 responses


Republican. Requiring a timetable is a "cut-and-run" mentality that sends a dangerous message.
31%

Democratic. Americans need to know there will be an end to U.S. troops there.
69%

[Imagevision]

6. President Johnson wanted to spread Democracy & freedom in Viet Nam

And we all know what the outcome of Viet Nam was...Nixon's "Peace with Honor" and the north took over the south and today??? we have fucking McDonald's there!!! 58,000+ dead US. troops no one knows how many we killed and were wounded.

Next time the US. decides to go to war, perhaps they'll give it a wee-bit more thought. as bush continues to say; "we'll stay the course"

[i_c_a_White_Ghost]

3. edit kick

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[FreedomAngel82]

4. Done!

Republican. Requiring a timetable is a "cut-and-run" mentality that sends a dangerous message.
31%
Democratic. Americans need to know there will be an end to U.S. troops there.
69%

* 9554 responses at 3:01pm est

[tk2kewl]

5. .

[QuettaKid]

7. Done....and a kick!

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[northamericancitizen]

8. done

[hippiegranny]

9. d & k

:kick:

[graywarrior]

10. done

[skooooo]

11. 68% dem

[cloud_chaser1]

12. Done

[melissinha]

13. WOW! Done.

Now this poll is really an indication that Republican control is OVER.

I expected much less. But it may have been our input :)

[Mr_Spock]

14. DUne.

68% good guys...

[Eugene]

15. Done.

Republican 32%
Democratic 68%

12318 responses

This poll question is as simpleminded as GeeDubya himself.

[Lochloosa]

16. Done 68%

Republican. Requiring a timetable is a "cut-and-run" mentality that sends a dangerous message.
32%

Democratic. Americans need to know there will be an end to U.S. troops there.
68%

[Kire]

17. done

:kick:

[GaDemo]

18. Done

[we can do it]

19. Done - 68% Dem - 13,000+ votes

[Historic NY]

20. done 34%Rep - 66%Dem

[newyawker99]

21. Done.

[obxhead]

22. 65%

[MissMarple]

23. Here's a link to Durbin's response to Frist's feeble stunt.

courtesy of liveoaktx
http://www.canofun.com/blog/default.asp