Senate Resolution Fails
The Senate voted today to end debate and vote on the new resolution that would end support for the troop surge of into Iraq that the President called for a couple weeks ago. The vote failed to pass, falling far short of the 60 votes required. This comes as a huge win for both the President and supporters of the Iraq War.
What baffles me is that it wasn't too long ago that the Senate unanimously voted in the new General, David Petraeus, who called for a surge of about 20,000 additional soldiers to help sweep and secure hostile areas and put down the violence. Now the Senate majority (Democrats) has decided to try and vote down this support? What message does this send to our forces overseas? It can't be reassuring.
This situation gets even more confusing when you take into consideration that some of the people who organized this resolution ended up voting against it (John Warner, R-VA). Joe Lieberman also turned heads by being the only Democrat to vote against the resolution. I love the guy because he still sticks to his guns when it comes to what he believes is right.
All in all, this is a very complicated situation...but in the end, it means nothing. The surge is going on as we speak and will hopefully spell good things for the upcoming summer months. All we can do is unite and grant our troops the support and drive that make them the best soldiers on the planet.
What baffles me is that it wasn't too long ago that the Senate unanimously voted in the new General, David Petraeus, who called for a surge of about 20,000 additional soldiers to help sweep and secure hostile areas and put down the violence. Now the Senate majority (Democrats) has decided to try and vote down this support? What message does this send to our forces overseas? It can't be reassuring.
This situation gets even more confusing when you take into consideration that some of the people who organized this resolution ended up voting against it (John Warner, R-VA). Joe Lieberman also turned heads by being the only Democrat to vote against the resolution. I love the guy because he still sticks to his guns when it comes to what he believes is right.
All in all, this is a very complicated situation...but in the end, it means nothing. The surge is going on as we speak and will hopefully spell good things for the upcoming summer months. All we can do is unite and grant our troops the support and drive that make them the best soldiers on the planet.
posted by Carl Soderberg at
8:01 PM
1 Comments:
You can thanks the stubborn Republicans for this. They are just scared of a debate with the Dems on the war because they know they will loose and embarass the President. Just goes to show that more Democrats needed to be elected the past November. As far as the surge working, the only thing this will accomplish is an increase in violence and casualties, then maybe the President will open his eyes and rbing our soldiers home.
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