Iraq vote angers anti-war wing« Thread Started on Mar 24, 2007, 5:46pm » --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Iraq vote angers anti-war wingread at source> http://www.examiner.com/a-636763~Democr ... ng.htmlMar 24, 2007 3:00 AM (15 hrs ago) by Charles Hurt, The Examiner Font Size: a a A A Current rank: # 5 of 18,267 ((AP Photo/Dennis Cook))House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., center, flanked by House Majority Whip James Clyburn of S.C., left, and Rep. Patrick Murphy, D-Pa., meets reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington on Friday after a sharply divided House of Representatives voted to order President Bush to bring combat troops home from Iraq next year. Washington, D.C. (Map, News) - House Democrats voted Friday to continue paying for the war in Iraq but set deadlines for withdrawal. The $124 billion spending bill eked by on a near party line vote of 218 to 212 with no “ayes” to spare.Afterwards, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., — who voted against the war in 2002 — called it "one giant step" towards ending the war.House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., who voted in favor of the war authorization five years ago, disputed Republican claims that the vote amounted to turning tail and leaving Iraq in the lurch.“It will not even begin [withdrawal] until a year from now,” he said before Friday's vote. “This is not any precipitous withdrawal.”In an unusual alliance, the liberal anti-war wing of the House Democratic caucus joined Republicans in opposing the bill.Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, who was against the war long before most Democrats turned against it, said the vote proves that the war now has a “momentum of its own.”“You cannot say you are for peace and vote to keep this war going,” Kucinich implored his fellow Democrats. “If you want peace, stop funding the war.”