Murtha’s resolution is a page long, including an explanatory preamble, and ends with the following recommendation:
Therefore be it Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of American in Congress assembled, That:Leaving a quick-reaction force behind to help as needed, instead of staying as an occupying force, is one of the cleverest ideas I’ve heard. No wonder the GOP wanted to draw attention away from it.
Section 1. The deployment of United States Forces in Iraq, by direction of Congress, is hereby terminated and forces involved are to be redeployed at the earliest practicable date.
Section 2. A quick-reaction U.S. force and an over-the-horizon presence of U.S. Marines shall be deployed in the region.
Section 3. The United States of America shall pursue security and stability in Iraq through diplomacy.
The GOP resolution, which, in fairness, tries to be a page long through the clever use of large-sized fonts, reduced Murtha’s idea to a mere three lines:
Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the deployment of United States forces in Iraq be terminated immediately.They called it the “Murtha Resolution” and demanded it go up for a vote, without discussion. And that’s when all hell broke loose.
1 Resolved, That it is the sense of the House of Representatives that the deployment of United States forces in Iraq be terminated immediately.
(Thanks to BradBlog for the PDFs.)
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