Posted on 01/17/2007 11:12:58 AM PST by Enchante
WASHINGTON - Senate Democrats working with a well-known Republican war critic are developing a resolution declaring that President Bush's troop build up in Iraq "is not in the national interest," said people familiar with the document.
The resolution also 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, according to officials who are knowledgeable about the draft.
These officials would speak only on grounds of anonymity because the drafting is still under way. Sen. Chuck Hagel (news, bio, voting record), a Nebraska Republican and potential 2008 presidential candidate, is helping Democrats with the wording of the anti-war resolution.
"It is not in the national interest of the United States to deepen its military involvement in Iraq, particularly by escalating U.S. troop presence in Iraq," it says.
The resolution will be cosponsored by Sens. Carl Levin (news, bio, voting record) and Joseph Biden (news, bio, voting record), as well as Hagel. Levin, D-Mich., chairs the Armed Services Committee, and Biden, D-Del., heads the Foreign Relations Committee.
The Senate leadership is expected by Thursday to propose the resolution, with debate planned around the same time that Bush delivers his State of the Union speech next Tuesday.
Hagel's agreement to help Democrats champion the resolution amounts to a setback to the administration and to Bush, who has argued vehemently that some 21,500 additional U.S. troops are needed to help the Iraqi government calm sectarian violence in Baghdad and Anbar province.
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I'd say it cements his defeat in the Republican primaries. Why vote for him, when you can vote for a real Democrat?
At least you are a consistent liberal. With a name like "willard" I smell a RAT.
Again, Ron Paul is my man. He predicted the mess in Iraq when some folks here were predicting that we were on the verge of a democratic chain reaction in the Middle East, that the Iraq war would "pay for itself," that the insurgency was just a few foreigners taking pot-shots who would soon be quelled, that the MSM would soon have egg on their face on WMD, that the Iraqis were liberty loving (they voted for Shi'ite fundamentalists instead). Remember the famous quagmire alerts? Haven't seen one of those lately.
I'll call this Hagel does a Kegel, the wuss!
"Hagel has no clue and never has."
Hagel is a public backstabber. McCain is too, but does it with an "aw shucks" style. Hagel is pure mean.
I hope the President comes out on the day of such a resolution and argues forcefully that this resolution is not in the national interest.
It is tantamount to screaming at the coach during a game. It does not advance the game, but has a good chance of disrupting the players.
Yeah, right a consistent liberal is for smaller government including the second amendment, for massive tax cuts, and against racial preferences. If that is what you mean by "consistent liberal," I guess I'll have to plead guilty.
Why do RINOs and Dems need a resolution to do what they've been doing since the war began?
They haven't called him Hagel (R-France) for a decade for nothing.
Speaking of predictions, let's remember these, shall we?
-the "Arab Street" would explode
-Iraqi refugees would strain neighboring countries
-we'd lose 10,000 soldiers (in the actual war against Saddam)
-Iraq war would cause terrorist attacks back here
-Israel would be under siege (although this was probably wishful thinking)
-hundreds of oil fields would be set ablaze
Hagel is for limited Republican government. As for Iraq, the administration may have tried to sell it in Wilsonian terms, but the main purpose is to maintain an American presence in the Middle East. Hagel is not helping because he is obsessed with the rhetoric of the Vietnam era.
What a Parliment of Metrosexuals. They don't have the stones to actually try and do something, so they make their pathetic little resolutions with no relevance and no ramifications and then pound their chests acting as though they had actually done something.
Meanwhile, real make reals decisions with real outcomes waving the nagging little gnats away with the brush of a hand.
I was going down memory lane on the most popular predictions at FR. Yeah, you can find extreme predictions on on both sides that were wrong....though folks like Ron Paul were more careful. Interstingly, some of your "wrong" predictions were not so wrong after all. Iraqi refugees have indeed strained neighboring countries. The Christian population is rapidly declining, for example. Certainly nobody in their right mind is now actually moving to Iraq. The Arab Street hasn't exploded but Arabs (contra the Wilsonian predictions) have shown time and again that they have nothing but contempt for democracy in their votes.....so that's pretty much the same thing.
Supposedly, at the top of the hour, Hildabeaset is supposed to give a presser with HER plans for Iraq.
That NEW and IMPROVED plan..of "capping" the number of troops that can be in or sent to Iraq!!!
Add that to this stupid resolution...and al-queda and Sadr have the necessary impetus to just lay low...because they will be SURE that Americans will quit.
Also...any Iraqi that has helped our troops will probably be killed...so they will probably kill our troops first.
This is NOT the way to run a war....that you want to win.
I'm not so sure neighboring countries have been "strained", they merely ignore the refugees much like they ignore their own people.
As for the street exploding, we all know what that meant.
It meant that the Arabs would turn against us and that has happened whenver they have had a chance to vote.
1. This is treason, plain and simple.
2. While I detest Hagel for helping the Democrats, there isn't a single post on the entire thread, that puts the blame where it belongs, on the Democrats, who are the ones who are doing this in the first place, because they are in power.
Who other then democrats give a crap? Suck it up Hagel!
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