Iraq withdrawal update

On my post about Schmidt: although I mentioned that HR 517 (calling for immediate withdrawal from Iraq) was sponsored by the Republican leadership, I should make clear that the leadership was not seriously calling for an end to the war; by all accounts, it was simply a ploy to discredit John Murtha by getting a massive vote against withdrawal on the record. The MSM, as usual, has largely failed to parse the differences between Murtha's resolution (which did not get a vote) and HR 517 (which did). They are not insignificant, as the post below should make clear. Finally, however, some folks are beginning to note that Murtha and the leadership were talking about two very different things. For more information, take a look at Fred Kaplan's article at Slate, as well as this entry at Salon.