On house vote 1 of 17 Republicans who voted yes in House.

Wow, can anyone explain why he did that?

On the floor.

Damn, I missed his speech!  Voinovich is speaking now!  Could somebody tell me what Jim Webb said?

I was listening to Webb's speech when my daughter wandered into my office with her Pakistani Muslim boyfriend in tow.  He was asking all sorts of questions about Webb and I missed a lot of the speech.  He also asked a lot of questions about the war, the political process, the non-binding resolution, etc., etc.  He's planning to apply for citizenship soon and is very curious about everything.  He didn't know about there being a Muslim Congressman, found the idea intriguing, and seemed rather proud to hear of it.  Most of his family here are already citizens and I worked them pretty hard before the election trying to get them to turn out and vote.  Now the boyfriend wants a Webb sticker and loves his ideas about the war and also about economic inequalities.  This young man works extremely hard at two jobs to support his extended family.  Virgil Goode is an ass who understands very little about the people he chooses to demonize.  When this young man came over to my brother's house for Thanksgiving dinner and saw the typical middle class home with a typical middle class Thanksgiving dinner with all the trimmings I could see he thought he'd died and gone to heaven.  He wants the American dream the same as countless immigrants before him. 

Sorry I got off topic.  Just venting, but doing it for the purpose of noting that most folks, Muslim or not, want peace and prosperity for their families and aren't interested in killing others unlike themselves.  They just want to live unmolested.  Thank God for sensible individuals like Jim Webb. 

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