Senate panel expected to oppose Bush's Iraq plan: Hagel: "We better be damn sure..."

[DeepModem Mom]

CNN/AP: Senate Foreign Relations Committee expected to oppose Bush's Iraq plan
January 24, 2007

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Democrats took the first step toward a wartime repudiation of President Bush on Wednesday, convening a Senate committee to endorse legislation declaring that the deployment of additional troops to Iraq is "not in the national interest."

"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 Sen. Chuck Hagel of Nebraska, the only Republican on the committee to announce support for the measure.

Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Delaware, the panel's chairman, said the legislation is "not an attempt to embarrass the president. ... It's an attempt to save the president from making a significant mistake with regard to our policy in Iraq."

Less than one month after taking control of Congress, there was little doubt Democrats had the votes to prevail. They hold 11 seats on the committee, to 10 for Republicans.

The full Senate is scheduled to begin debate on the measure next week, although Biden has said he is willing to negotiate changes in hopes of attracting support from more Republicans.

Even Republicans opposed to the measure expressed unease with the revised policy involving a war that has lasted nearly four years, claimed the lives of more than 3,000 U.S. troops and helped Democrats win control of Congress in last fall's elections....

http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/01/24/us.iraq.ap/index.html

[ItsTheMediaStupid]

1. Insanity: Repeating the same behavior and expecting different results

We've increased troop strength in the past and have had higher casualties with no significant change in the course of the occupation.

[KansDem]

2. "We better be damn sure we know what we're doing..."

Why? It hasn't bothered either the GOP or Bush before...

[muriel_volestrangler]

3. Now updated: rejected 12-9

Same story now includes:

The vote on the nonbinding measure was 12-9 and largely along party lines."

"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 Sen. Chuck Hagel of Nebraska, the sole Republican to join 11 Democrats in support of the measure.

[pro_blue_guy]

4. BUCK FUSH!

[roamer65]

5. "Make a stand or go sell shoes".

Hagel isn't half bad, for a Rethuglican.