Armey Says Dem Victory is a DefeatFormer House Majority Leader Dick Armey sees the non-binding House resolution opposing the Iraq Iraq or Irak (both: ēräk`, ĭrăk`), officially Republic of Iraq, republic (2005 est. pop. 26,075,000), 167,924 sq mi (434,924 sq km), SW Asia. troop increase as a defeat for the Democrats. Discussing the 246 to 182 vote, which included 17 Republican defections, Armey said, "The White House is doing good then, if they held it to 17. I think they felt if they could keep it to 20 or below then they are in good shape. I think that settles the deal." "They didn't did·n't Contraction of did not. didn't did not didn't do get enough of a show of Republican votes, so that it will drift drift, deposit of mixed clay, gravel, sand, and boulders transported and laid down by glaciers. Stratified, or glaciofluvial, drift is carried by waters flowing from the melting ice of a glacier. into the category of little-noted-no-longer-remembered," he said. The Democrats have convened an unusual Saturday Saturday: see week; Sabbath. session of the Senate in an attempt to make sure that doesn't happen. --Jason Horowitz 
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