Why Do Republicans Want a Never Ending Military Occupation of Afghanistan With No Timetable for Withdrawal?
Question by Richard V: Why do Republicans want a never ending Military Occupation of Afghanistan with no timetable for withdrawal?
House Republicans don’t allow vote forcing Administration to stick to Afghanistan timetable
Deirdre Walsh, CNN, May 17, 2012
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/05/17/house-republicans-dont-allow-vote-forcing-administration-to-stick-to-afghanistan-timetable/
Washington – House Republicans pulled the plug on a vote Thursday on a bipartisan amendment to a defense bill that would force the Obama administration to stick firmly to its timetable for getting U.S. troops out of Afghanistan.
Republicans were concerned the amendment could pass, according to two GOP congressional sources. Instead, GOP members decided to allow limited debate on Afghanistan, but just on one amendment sponsored by California Democrat Barbara Lee that was guaranteed to fail. It would essentially end the war in Afghanistan by limiting funding to the “safe and orderly withdrawal” of U.S. troops.
One of the Republican sources stressed that there were a combination of factors for not allowing a vote on the timetable proposal, including “a lack of White House engagement.” GOP leaders expected a bloc of their own members to support the measure and they couldn’t rely on the White House to lobby Democrats against it.
The source stressed Republicans didn’t want to “roll the dice” and have a vote setting firm dates for the administration’s war policy, which would expose significant reservations about the president’s plan, which GOP leaders have largely supported.
Democratic Rep. Jim McGovern of Massachusetts, who pushed for the vote on the timetable amendment with North Carolina Republican Rep. Walter Jones, decried the decision to deny a vote on his proposal on Thursday. “What is the Republican leadership afraid of? Are they afraid a bipartisan majority of this House will vote to follow the will of the American people and change our Afghanistan policy?” he said.
McGovern explained that his amendment required the president to stand by his commitment to transition all combat operations to the Afghan government by the end of 2013 and complete the transition of all military and security operations by the end of 2014. It would have also required the administration to come back to Congress for approval if it wanted any troops to stay beyond 2014.
Jones told CNN he was confident the amendment would have passed. “That’s the reason they didn’t bring it up,” he said.
worthless…good point, it seems Obama on indefinite detention of Americans (NDAA), drones, War, Free Trade is more in step with Republicans than his own Party
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2012/roll270.xml
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Fight them there or fight them here.
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