ONLY 21 REPUBLICAN CONGRESSMEMBERS VOTE TO SUPPORT CORRUPTION IN IRAQ

If you look at their utterly rubber stamp votes on Bush's entire Iraq tragedy you might be surprised to see that 171 Republicans-- including even straight-down the line war fanatics like Doug Lamborn R-CO), Patrick McHenry (R-NC), Lynn Westmoreland (R-GA), John Boehner (R-OH), Michele Bachmann (R-MN), Adrian Smith (R-NE), Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Tom Feeney (R-FL), Howdy Doody (R-FL), John Kline (R-MN), Virginia Foxx (R-NC), Roy Blunt (R-MO), Tim Walberg (R-MI), Marilyn Musgrave (R-CO), Steven Pearce (R-NM), Mean Jean Schmidt (R-OH), Darrell Issa (R-CA) and Dan Lungren (R-CA)-- joined all the Democrats to pass a resolution today condemning the Bush Regime for stonewalling in corruption in Iraq (H.R. 734).

This is what all but the most radical right Republican fanatics joined the Democrats to pass:

Resolved, That it is the sense of the House of Representatives that--

(1) as Congress considers the President’s request for over $150,000,000,000 more for the war in Iraq, it is essential that Congress and the people of the United States know the extent of corruption in the Iraqi government and whether corruption is fueling the insurgency and endangering members of the United States Armed Forces;

(2) it was wrong to retroactively classify portions of the report titled `Stabilizing and Rebuilding Iraq: U.S. Ministry Capacity Development Efforts Need an Overall Integrated Strategy to Guide Efforts and Manage Risk’, which was released by the Comptroller General of the United States at the hearing of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on October 4, 2007, and other statements that are embarrassing but do not meet the criteria for classification;

(3) it is an abuse of the classification process to withhold from Congress and the people of the United States broad assessments of the extent of corruption in the Iraqi Government; and

(4) the directive that prohibits Federal Government officials from providing Congress and the people of the United States with `broad statements/assessments which judge or characterize the quality of Iraqi governance or the ability/determination of the Iraqi government to deal with corruption, including allegations that investigations were thwarted/stifled for political reasons’ should be rescinded.

Look at the list of kooks above who did vote for it, Now here's the list of the extremists who voted no. If you ever want a list of the worst of the worst, bookmark this page.

Paul Broun (GA)
Chris Cannon (UT)
Eric Cantor (VA)
John Carter (TX)
Michael Conaway (TX)
John Doolittle (CA)
David Dreier (CA)
Phil Gingrey (TX)
Ralph Hall (TX)
Duncan Hunter (CA)
Jim Jordan (OH)
Steve King (IA)
Jerry Lewis (CA)
John Linder
Gary Miller (CA)
Randy Neugebauer (TX)
Mike Pence (IN)
Mike Rogers (AL)
Mike Rogers (MI)
Bill Sali (ID)
Mac Thornberry (TX)

The Chairman of the committee heading the investigation is the dauntless Henry Waxman (D-CA). He summed the problem up nicely: “We need answers to some very important questions: how corrupt is the Maliki government? Are top officials in iraq stealing billions of dollars to fund insurgents for attacking and killing our troops? Is corruption undermining the chances for political reconciliation? Secretary of State Rice says she will answer these questions only on one condition-- every Member of Congress who hears the answers has to keep the answers secret. Well, that’s an outrageous abuse of the classification system.”
 
Watch Peter Welch (D-VT) speaking about this on the House floor today.