Only 14 Senators voted against the war funding! In the First Gulf War, the vote on war authorization was much closer, 52-47 I believe, and that was only after an orchestrated propaganda campaign of lies by the Bush Sr. regime. Lies such as babies being thrown from incubators.

Several Senators afterwards said they would have voted against authorization if they had known the truth. But now the war opponents have dropped from 47 to 14, and they have all the information they need. Disgusting.

The Senate seems to be a majority of psychopathic Rethuglicans and roll-over wimp Dems.

Elliott @ 74

Not one good thing could come out of bombing Iran,

Bomb Iran and the price of oil zooms to $100 per barrel.

Time for a windfall war-profits tax?

PS – I sure would like to see folks here weigh in on how this Dem capitulation helps Hillary. After all, Rahm Emmanuel is one of the architects, and we know that getting her, and thus him, back to the WH is his main goal in life.

They don’t like risk. They just want to kick the can down the road until the public is more in favor of walking away from Iraq and then they can “lead” the way.

I like Dodd.

He’s experienced and over the next few months we should keep an eye on how he handles himself. It’s when they’re under pressure that you really can find out important things.

It never hurts to have more great candidates so the competition between them gives us the most chance of finding just the right one.

My displeasure with the cave-in on the Iraq War funding issue almost, I said, ‘almost’, defies description. I will be taking those in my party responsible to task. And I will particularly focus on certain Democratic presidential front-runners who continue to triangulate.

It would also be a good vote for us to look at, so we’ll get an idea of which Dems to oppose in primaries.

I love KO. I love him.

How about we sit on our fucking checkbooks ’till September too???

Splendid idea. I shall start today. Everyone else, Permission to do the same.

Zero Out the Executive Branch Funding At The First Available Opportunity”

Wonderful idea. The only problem with it is that it takes political courage on the part of the Congressional Democrats to pull it off.

Loo Hoo @ 190

Wow, LS@81, that’s so cool.

Is that really true?

Actually, IIRC, it was a draft resolution that the Iraqi parliament had not yet voted on.

Bob in HI