[Vision2020] Essay on Globalism by Ron Paul

[Andreas Schou]

On 7/21/07, Donovan Arnold <donovanjarnold2005 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> The reason the US Senate is stalling on the withdraw of troops from Iraq is
> because it knows two things;
>
> 1) That the people that voted for them what an end to the war now and what
> the troops back home.
>
> and
>
> 2) That if the US withdraws troops from Iraq it would have negative
> repercussions and that it vital to US interests to keep troops there.

Donovan --

The US Senate is failing to end the war because a withdrawal requires
a 60-vote majority to break a Republican filibuster (which they have
done every time it has come to a vote) and a 66-vote majority to break
a Bush veto threat. In the House of Representatives, where party unity
and the number of defectors needed is higher, breaking a Bush veto is
almost impossible, given the tiny Democratic majority.

Thus the Republicans hold us in an unwinnable morass for yet another year.

-- ACS