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Article: COLUMN: Truth about Republicans, Democrats & anti-surge resolution
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- February 27, 2007
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Katy Crane
University Wire
02-27-2007
(Brown Daily Herald) (U-WIRE) PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- As soon as the House of Representatives passed the nonbinding resolution against a troop surge in Iraq, Republicans began calling the vote a "moral victory" for supporters of the surge.
According to Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, both Republicans and Democrats expected the number of Republicans supporting the resolution to be much higher than it was. In the end, 17 Republicans crossed party lines to vote for the resolution, while only two Democrats voted against it.
It is true that the language of the resolution -- expressing both support for the troops now serving in Iraq and disapproval of the ...
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Article: Not so fast on Iraq, Democrats
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