Comments on: Senate's Iraq Debate Ends In Deadlock

Democrats Fall 4 Votes Short Of Moving Forward With Resolution

[jonesforch]

Senate Gridlocks on Iraq War Resolution


I knew this would happy they needed 2/3 and did not get it.

[j-whitman]

I'm going to mow my yard, it's in the 70's here in Sacramento... I'm sure this isn't the end of the issue.

[beehive21-2009]

The USA is commited to firing it up when needed, so hold on to your hats.It is unAmerica to tie the hands of your President,either get on or mellow out we shall handle it.Do not forget the Twin Towers.

[cbs_oliver]

How many brave Americans need to be sacrificed to sustain Republican pride and arrogance?

[j-whitman]

Senate Republicans stopped Supporting our Troops, rather than discussing the problems -- They bowed for assskissing politics --- Shame on them, Shame on them .

[newsjeff-2009]

I just wonder that if the same GOP senators who voted to favor the Iraq Troop buildup and support Bush's plan for Iraq will be the same GOP senators who will probably vote against minimum wage increase proposal that has been passed by the congressional house.(of course, when I read the report, I noticed that several GOP congressional members voted against raising minimum wage again or just did vote period, which does not surprise me!!)I guess these GOP senators also supports cuts in funding for nursing homes,hospitals,medicare and medicaid payments that benefits are retired seniors and disabled people relying on home health care,hospital or nursing home care, and also probably want to phase out social security as well, since the GOP refuses to fund social security so Americans can have a secure,decent retirement in the future.

[j-whitman]

Processor,,
,, Here's an important Homeland Security issue Bush refuses to address,,, Our National Guard cann't respond to Mexican's driving up to them on thier lunch break in the USA & pointing guns at them -- Bush won't let them respond

[clemenhagen1]

Processor: You beat your chest mightily. My question to you is whom we are supposed to fight? The powers to be sold this war as one against terrorism, but our troops don't get to fight terrorists in Iraq. In fact, our continued presence in Iraq gives the terrorists room to move because we have become bogged down in a religious civil conflict. The Taliban, whom we had all but vanquished in Afghanistan, have risen again. In the meantime, as I read it, we get strafed by both Sunni and Shiite factions in Iraq. Neither will stand and fight, they just put out IED's by the side of the road that blow up our soldiers as they drive by. We have provided them targets, but they do not reciprocate the favor. How does it show cowardice and stand as a "disaster of historic proportion" if we intelligently choose to redeploy. If you fight a war and refuse to redeploy or adjust your strategy during the fight, does that demonstrate courage under fire or stubborness and ignorance. I choose the latter and these descriptors seem to fit our current commander-in-chief perfectly: arrogantly stubborn and too ignorant of complexity and cultural, political, and historical reality to adjust policy. Just a thought from a patriotic socialist!

[processor2]

So, the socialist/marxist/leninists (aka Democrats)that have seized control of congress last November will take a vote today on the surrender of our country.

This resolution is a disaster of historical proportions.

The Democrap Party today will show the world what wimps and whiners that Democrats really are.

Heaven help us.

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SOMETIMES I WONDER IF LIBERALISM ISN'T A MENTAL DISORDER.....most people I know are a glass is half-full kind of people, whereas liberals see nothing but doom, gloom, and surrender.


UNLIKE YOU LIBERALS,,,,,,I do not advocate putting our tails between our legs and running like the cowardly Dummycrats are proposing.

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[j-whitman]

We could ask Bushies why they have adopted Clinoton's policy on North Korea after *********** it for 6 years.

[clemenhagen1]

Hillary: "It may be a good time for you and your liberal friends to join up with the enemy. I think they are going to need all the help they can get."

Without getting into a meaningless game of name-calling and labeling, could we have a reasonable discussion about the current situation in Iraq. I do not see the situation in Iraq as the center of the war on terror but rather an irritant. It seems to me we have created a situation where terror groups have more room to operate because we have gotten bogged down in a civil conflict in Iraq. Evidence of that would seem to be the rise of the Taliban in Afghanistan. Currently in Iraq I see Sunnis, like our supposed "allies" Saudi Arabia, funding the Sunni insurgency. Shiite elements get their funding from Iran and other sypathetic allies, but the "government" we want to be successful is linked with these Shia factions. How can our troops succeed and acheive "total victory" in this current situation? How can we in good conscience continue to demand our troops remain in the midst of such a religious civil war? Again, this would be my description of the current situation. I would be interested to hear how a supporter of Bush's surge plan sees it differently. I am not trying to be sarcastic or disparaging in any fashion, just interested in a good old-fashioned discussion that respects opposing views. Hillary or anyone else out there care to play?

[antoniof123]

I can not believe that right after the election the Republicans still refuse to believe that we are not going to fall for there lies this time. Why will they just not listen to us how hard is it to understand that. Can people really be this stupid or are they doing this stuff to really make us laugh.

[radiob-2009]

From vice president Cheney 1992

would guess if we had gone in there, I would still have forces in Baghdad today. We'd be running the country. We would not have been able to get everybody out and bring everybody home.

And the final point that I think needs to be made is this question of casualties. I don't think you could have done all of that without significant additional U.S. casualties, and while everybody was tremendously impressed with the low cost of the (1991) conflict, for the 146 Americans who were killed in action and for their families, it wasn't a cheap war.

And the question in my mind is, how many additional American casualties is Saddam (Hussein) worth? And the answer is, not that damned many. So, I think we got it right, both when we decided to expel him from Kuwait, but also when the President made the decision that we'd achieved our objectives and we were not going to go get bogged down in the problems of trying to take over and govern Iraq."

[tuckerndfw]

Typical GOP obfuscatoin & delaying tactic.

First the GOP whines about a "meaningless ressolution" and then wastes days attempting to insert additional, contradictory language into the "meaningless resolution" so it will not pass.

Why would anyone vote to NOT support an effort while at the same time voting to finance that effort?

Anyone who supports the GOP as led by the Bush crime syndicate is a moron.

[azman80]

dallison7, your last comment honestly made me laugh, that was good.
So where is "hogwash" cheney. Shouldnt he be mouthing off to the democrats how they are all wrong about something their doing? Or maybe he realizes that there isnt a dang thing he could say or do? I do find it sad that the republicans are using the troops needs as a defense to the democrats for trying to cut funds for the Icrap, I mean Iraq war, when the democrats and most of the rest of the nation(and world) are trying to get troops out. Democrats are not trying to turn their back on the troops, they are just trying to slap the administration in the face and say "no money, troops out", not "no money for troops because we dont care about them" like the republicans are trying to say.

[hillaryin08]

dallison7

It may be a good time for you and your liberal friends to join up with the enemy. I think they are going to need all the help they can get.

By the way, if the repubs are chasing little boys, they got their numbers from Barny Frank 10 years ago......get it?

[dallison7]

That's one way to get the measure passed. Vote during the weekend... all the republicans are out somewhere chasing little boys.

[mbcsmith]

Harry "real estate" Reid. What a joke!