[Nogbad]

Pre-emption.

[Always Right]

You know if we just let Hitler take Poland, he may not try to take over the rest of Europe.......

[caisson71]

This looks like the same confused and inept CIA prior 9/11.
Apparently, the career spooks are spooked by their main source of information - the lamestream media.

[Mixer]

In Baghdad, the government of Iraq on Tuesday described Bush's speech as an attempt to justify an attack.

For anyone who ever wondered what Baghdad and the Dems have in common.

[Always Right]

That could delay the vote well into next week, suggested Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, D-W.Va.

There you go, delay it even closer to the election. Great idea. Keep debating this issue all the way up to the election.

[Zebra]

Byrd is a scumbag of the highest order. I'll bet next month's pay that he is using his parlimentarian tricks to exact pork in exchange for relaxing his hold on the process. The only thing creepier than this extortionist are the people who keep sending him back to Washington rather than flushing the toilet.

[steveegg]

Surprise, surprise, surprise. El Diablo D'Asshole Hussein is using Robert Byrd Brain to do his dirty work.

[dd5339]

"Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, D-W.Va."

I just love how AP edits their articles.

Semper Fi

[phasma proeliator]

I'm just glad to see Dashole moved to West Virginia.

"suggested Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, D-W.Va."

[Scott from the Left Coast]

This would qualify as, hopefully, the final traitorous action of a senile old RAT.

[Huck]

Appeasement. Bush should call it what it is. That's what Ronald Reagan would do.

[Huck]

Byrd, widely respected for his deep knowledge of the Senate rules

Byrd, widely respected for everything EXCEPT substantive ideas.

[Puddleglum]

Tenet is an idiot for making this provacation comment. He's foolish to imply that leaving Iraq undisturbed is going to reduce the likelihood of cataclysm. The question can only be, do we confront Iraq now, or wait til Saddam's older, crazier, and has an exponentially greater ability to do damage.

Bush ought to fire him for making such a short-sighted comment.

[rightwing2]

Tenet, in a letter read before a joint hearing of the House and Senate intelligence committees Tuesday, said that "Baghdad for now appears to be drawing a line short of conducting terrorist attacks with conventional or chemical or biological weapons." But Tenet went on to say that should Saddam conclude that a U.S.-led attack against his country could not be deterred, "he probably would become much less constrained in adopting terrorist action."

Well at least the CIA is telling the truth. Saddam has never attempted terrorist or WMD attacks against the US, but he very well might attempt them if the Bush Administation tries to kill him by way of an all-out US invasion. Such an unprovoked invasion would risk the lives of thousands of soldiers who might fall under CBR attacks from a Saddam with nowhere to go and nothing whatsoever to lose.

But while it appeared to be clear sailing for the measure in the GOP-led House, Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., served notice on other Democrats at a party luncheon that he intended to use parliamentary tactics to delay a final vote, according to those who attended the session. That could delay the vote well into next week, suggested Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, D-W.Va. Byrd, widely respected for his deep knowledge of the Senate rules, has emerged as the primary Senate opponent to the president's war resolution.

This is just sad! Patriotic conservatives now have to rely on the Democrap President pro-tem of the US Senate to stop the President's few bad policy endeavors such as amnesty for millions of illegal immigrants and now an unprovoked invasion of Iraq threatening to derail the President's admirable just war on Islamicist terror.

[TonyInOhio]

Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., served notice on other Democrats at a party luncheon that he intended to use parliamentary tactics to delay a final vote

Please contact Senator Byrd, and urge him to stop this reckless plunge into war. His office number is (202) 224-3904. Call until November 4th, until he croaks from the filibuster, or until Republicans lead in the New Jersey, Minnesota, Missouri, and Georgia Senate races, whichever comes first. :-)

Tony

[clintonh8r]

The bottom line is that Bush doesn't need the resolution. The resolution passed on 9/14/01 and the UN resolutions already in place are sufficient grounds on which to act. Acting without the congress will not cost him any votes, and waiting for the resolution won't gain him any votes. However, waiting will cost American combatants' lives, something that's meaningless to RATs (except for political purposes) but will mean a lot to Bush, who actually has a brain, a conscience and a heart.

[Recovering_Democrat]

From the article (direct quote):
That could delay the vote well into next week, suggested Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, D-W.Va.

Dolts. Daschle from West Virginia?

[VRWC_minion]

Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., served notice on other Democrats at a party luncheon that he intended to use parliamentary tactics to delay a final vote

Thanks, lets keep you folks tied up in DC while the campaigns start the ads showing the RATS side by side with Saddam.

[Ditto]

But while it appeared to be clear sailing for the measure in the GOP-led House, Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., served notice on other Democrats at a party luncheon that he intended to use parliamentary tactics to delay a final vote, according to those who attended the session.

Bobby (The Klansman) Byrd has a long history of delaying Senate votes.

June 10, 1964
Civil Rights Filibuster Ended

At 9:51 on the morning of June 10, 1964, Senator Robert C. Byrd completed an address that he had begun fourteen hours and thirteen minutes earlier. The subject was the pending Civil Rights Act of 1964, a measure that occupied the Senate for fifty-seven working days, including six Saturdays. A day earlier, Democratic Whip Hubert Humphrey, the bill's manager, concluded he had the sixty-seven votes required at that time to end the debate.

The Civil Rights Act provided protection of voting rights; banned discrimination in public facilities—including private businesses offering public services—such as lunch counters, hotels, and theaters; and established equal employment opportunity as the law of the land.

As Senator Byrd took his seat, House members, former senators, and others—150 of them—vied for limited standing space at the back of the chamber. With all gallery seats taken, hundreds waited outside in hopelessly extended lines.

Georgia Democrat Richard Russell offered the final arguments in opposition. Minority Leader Everett Dirksen, who had enlisted the Republican votes that made cloture a realistic option, spoke for the proponents with his customary eloquence. Noting that the day marked the one-hundredth anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's nomination to a second term, the Illinois Republican proclaimed, in the words of Victor Hugo, "Stronger than all the armies is an idea whose time has come." He continued, "The time has come for equality of opportunity in sharing in government, in education, and in employment. It will not be stayed or denied. It is here!"

Never in history had the Senate been able to muster enough votes to cut off a filibuster on a civil rights bill. And only once in the thirty-seven years since 1927 had it agreed to cloture for any measure.

The clerk proceeded to call the roll. When he reached "Mr. Engle," there was no response. A brain tumor had robbed California's mortally ill Clair Engle of his ability to speak. Slowly lifting a crippled arm, he pointed to his eye, thereby signaling his affirmative vote. Few of those who witnessed this heroic gesture ever forgot it. When Delaware's John Williams provided the decisive sixty-seventh vote, Majority Leader Mike Mansfield exclaimed, "That's it!"; Richard Russell slumped; and Hubert Humphrey beamed. With six wavering senators providing a four-vote victory margin, the final tally stood at 71 to 29. Nine days later the Senate approved the act itself—producing one of the twentieth century's towering legislative achievements.

Source: http://www.senate.gov/learning/min_6h.html

[BulletBrasDotNet]

These democrats are unbelievable. They stall, and stall. I remember a saying from when I was a kid. "Nero fiddles while Rome burns."