Senate Panel Passes Resolution Opposing Troop Escalation in Iraq

Canuck_Buck · 01-24-2007, 12:03 PM

WASHINGTON"” The Senate Foreign Relations Committee passed Wednesday on a 12-9 vote a nonbinding resolution that concludes "it is not in the national interest of the United States" to deepen U.S. military involvement in Iraq.

The measure now goes to the Senate floor for a vote before the full chamber, which is expected sometime next week.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,246278,00.html

It vote is the first attempt by the new Democratic-controlled Congress to check President Bush's authority to send more troops to Iraq. The measure was opposed by all the panel's Republicans except co-sponsor Sen. Chuck Hagel.

"We better be damn sure we know what we're doing, all of us, before we put 22,000 more Americans into that grinder," said Hagel of Nebraska before the vote.

burniegoeasily · 01-24-2007, 02:03 PM

You could see that one coming from a mile away.

Alsatian · 01-24-2007, 02:13 PM

Well, I don't view this as an attempt to check the president's authority. Remember, this is a nonbinding resolution . . . pretty words with no legal power at all. The fact that only one Republican voted with the Democrats on this doesn't provide much weight as far as I'm concerned. I personally agree that it is ill advised to increase our military committment in Iraq, but I think you need more Republicans pressuring Bush, through one channel or another, to change his mind. This kind of silly nonbinding resolution stuff is just posturing for the media.

burniegoeasily · 01-24-2007, 02:36 PM

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This kind of silly nonbinding resolution stuff is just posturing for the media.

Exactly, plus a waste of paper and time.

James B · 01-24-2007, 05:35 PM

RIGHT!!! And its not like they have no real problems that they could work on instead. POLITICAL BS. The two party system has become nothing but a reason to get nothing done. They only care about how things effect their party, they care NOTHING about the people they are supposed to be working for. As long as we have two parties and the people will not hold either responsible for their actions or lack there of, we deserve just what we get or don't get. We can Bitch but we are the ones who put them there and the only ones that can throw them out. When are we all going to vote NONE OF THE ABOVE????