Senate proposal on Iraq gains support

[jefferson_dem]

Senate proposal on Iraq gains support
By Susan Cornwell and Steve Holland

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Top Senate Democrats joined with Republican Sen. John Warner (news, bio, voting record) on Wednesday to support a nonbinding resolution opposing President George W. Bush's Iraq strategy, increasing prospects that Bush will face an embarrassing repudiation.

As a number of lawmakers sought a vehicle to go on record against Bush's plan to send 21,500 more U.S. troops to Iraq, Warner of Virginia agreed to changes in his proposal that picked up Democratic support.

"The Warner changes have moved us forward. I believe we have a better chance of drawing together a stronger bipartisan group in support of Warner's resolution," Assistant Majority Leader Dick Durbin, an Illinois Democrat, told reporters. He said he would vote for the Warner resolution as now written.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (news, bio, voting record), a Nevada Democrat, said he wanted debate to start on Warner's resolution on Monday.

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070201/pl_nm/iraq_usa_dc_4

[More Than A Feeling]

1. What about the Levin resolution, or the Kennedy bill, or the Feingold bill.

We control congress, what's with the Republican fig-leaf fetish?

[Warren Stupidity]

4. Democratic Chronic Nice Disease

It seems that twelve years of being kicked in the balls has both neutered our leadership and damaged their spines.

DCND: the secret shame of Democratic leadership everywhere. Help us find a cure.

[Hosnon]

2. Nonbinding? Come back to see me when the U.S. SENATE grows a pair. nt.

[Warren Stupidity]

3. Cut the funding. Bring them home now.

Half baked bullshit doesn't cut it. Embarrass boosh? Arrest the fucktard.

[Connie_Corleone]

5. I think the Dems are trying to merge the non-binding resolutions into one...

so there won't be a whole bunch of resolutions that will confuse the people. The White House wants a bunch of resolutions in order to divide the senate.

I still say a non-binding resolution is worthless without any action to back it up.