Senate scuttles troop withdrawal bill (52-47, well short of the 60 votes needed to cut off debate)

Ok, Tom, you had your vote,, again.
Now STFU.

In an image made from the Senate television pool broadcast, Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, speaks on the floor of the Senate early Wednesday morning July 18, 2007. Democrats organized the all-night session to dramatize opposition to the Iraq war but conceded they were unlikely to gain the votes needed to advance troop withdrawal legislation blocked by Republicans. (AP Photo/AP Television)

The Republicans are filibustering because they are afraid to bring anything about Iraq to an up-or-down vote. The polls show that what the Republicans want, the public does not want. The Republicans are afraid they will start losing in Congress, and then the losses will snowball. If they lose the Iraq war as all the signs portend, they lose everything that the Republican Party today stands for.

The Iraq war is the Republican Party today. It encompasses everything they are about. The Iraq War is fear-based, resulting in and allowing the war as an expression of racism, imperialism, militarism, opposition to the dirty anti-war hippies, while also standing for redemption for Nixon's removal from office and for fighting in Vietnam; then the war has become justification for doing away the Rule of Law and with Civil Rights in America. Finally, the war and everything related is all financed by extreme levels of political corruption which pleases the economic conservatives and libertarian conservatives.

On top of the other connections to Republicanism the location of the war in the Middle East suffuses it all with a patina of conservative Biblically-based religion. There really is an element of "the Crusader" included with the imperialism and militarism.

The Iraq War is the very core of the current Republican Party. Threaten the war and they are all threatened. They will do absolutely anything to keep the war.

>> A political solution must be found "so when we leave Iraq, we don't just send our children home, we don't have to send our grandchildren back." Gee, Joe, when did we start sending first graders to war??? I'm sure our men love being called children. 9 posted on 07/18/2007 12:36:01 PM CDT by keepitreal <<

Biden's been in the Senate so long that any American under retirement age is a "child" to him.

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