House rejects call to leave Afghanistan in 2011

[The Northerner]

Source: Reuters

(Reuters) - The House of Representatives on Thursday rejected a call for all U.S. forces to leave Afghanistan this year, endorsing more time for President Obama's surge strategy to work despite waning public support for the war.

Ninety-three lawmakers, most of them Democrats, voted for the pullout resolution that was written by mavericks in both parties, while 321 voted against it. Only eight members of the House Republican majority, which has generally backed Obama's strategy on Afghanistan, voted for the withdrawal.

But the vote showed an increase in sentiment for a quick pullout over a year ago, when a similar resolution got just 65 votes in the House. U.S. public support has waned for the nine-year-old war against Taliban insurgents.

Nearly two-thirds of Americans now think the war, which began after the September 11, 2001, attacks, is not worth fighting, a Washington Post/ABC News poll said this week. The conflict has killed 1,500 U.S. soldiers and now costs over $100 billion a year.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/17/us-afghanistan-usa-house-idUSTRE72G8L020110317

[ClarkUSA]

1. Pres. Obama wants the war to end in 2011. That's enough for the Teabagger House to oppose him.

[SkyDaddy7]

2. "Tea Bagger House" LOL! I love that!!

[ClarkUSA]

10. lol

:D

[bluestateguy]

3. Dana Rohrabacher voted for it

He's one of the Orange County Bob Dornan firebrands.

[ixion]

4. Hurray for more death and destruction!

:woohoo: :sarcasm:

[BanzaiBonnie]

5. Surge to work?

More time with our hand in your pocket, now taking food out of the mouths of our children.

[TheEuclideanOne]

6. Of course, they think it will make Obama look bad as the vote against removal

and then complain that Obama did not remove the troops.

[peace13]

7. It's just great with most that we bomb and destroy other countries but...

let a plume drift toward the US and by golly a crime has been committed against us. Stop the war already. The people and the planet have had enough!

[bemildred]

8. Cowards. nt

[Corruption Winz]

9. So, with this increase in numbers....

In a few years, we'll START to withdraw. Then, in a decades time.. we'll have most out. Then.. by the time I die, it'll be over.

So, this is a good day after all. Luck of the Irish strikes again!