The Dallas Morning News editorial on the recent brouhaha in the House of Representatives has a signficant problem. Representative Murtha's resolution called for (here's the exact language in the resolution)
The deployment of United States forces in Iraq, by direction of Congress, is hereby terminated and the forces involved are to be redeployed at the earliest practicable date.[emphasis added]and not 'immediate withdrawal' as stated in the DMN and other media outlets.
Why does this piss me off so much? Because it is an important distinction. It was the Republicans that took that language out of the resolution and called for the vote, just to be assholes.
So, yes, DMN...we agree it is important to have an open and honest debate about the war and an exit strategy and a policy to guide us. You, however, are not contributing to that open and honest debate.