The fake fight over the Iraq war
CounterPunch
by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair
03/31/07
Has the end of America’s war on Iraq been brought closer by the recent vote in the House of Representatives? On March 23, the full House voted 218 to 212 to set a timeline on the withdrawal of US troops, with September 1, 2008, as the putative date after which war funding might be restricted to withdrawal purposes only. It’s not exactly a stringent deadline. It only requires Bush to seek Congressional approval before extending the occupation and spending new funds to do so. … Although nothing of any significance actually happened on March 23, to read liberal commentators one would think we’d witnessed some profound upheaval, courtesy of Nancy Pelosi’s skillful uniting of the various Democratic factions. What she accomplished in practice was the neutering of the antiwar faction...
http://www.counterpunch.org/cockburn03312007.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Alexander+Cockburn
by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair
03/31/07
Has the end of America’s war on Iraq been brought closer by the recent vote in the House of Representatives? On March 23, the full House voted 218 to 212 to set a timeline on the withdrawal of US troops, with September 1, 2008, as the putative date after which war funding might be restricted to withdrawal purposes only. It’s not exactly a stringent deadline. It only requires Bush to seek Congressional approval before extending the occupation and spending new funds to do so. … Although nothing of any significance actually happened on March 23, to read liberal commentators one would think we’d witnessed some profound upheaval, courtesy of Nancy Pelosi’s skillful uniting of the various Democratic factions. What she accomplished in practice was the neutering of the antiwar faction...
http://www.counterpunch.org/cockburn03312007.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Alexander+Cockburn
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