Senate Battle Over Iraq Heats Up

[dogday]

Two Senate Republicans so far have signed onto a Democratic resolution opposing President Bush's plan to send nearly 22,000 more U.S. troops to Iraq.

The nonbinding resolution would put the Senate on record as saying the U.S. commitment in Iraq "can only be sustained" with popular support among the American public and in Congress.

"I will do everything I can to stop the president's policy as he outlined it Wednesday night," said Sen. Chuck Hagel, a Nebraska Republican and potential 2008 presidential candidate who joined Democrats at a news conference on the resolution.

Later Wednesday, a second Senate Republican, Olympia Snowe, a moderate from Maine, joined Democrats opposing the president.


http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/01/18/politics/main2369869.shtml

[Demeter]

1. Quote Ben Franklin At The Slackers: Either We Hang Together...

or we will assuredly all hang separately!

(Mention Saddam Hussein frequently, too)