Since John Kerry voted for the war before voting against it, we have been waiting for the Democracy Party to tell us what it really thinks about the war in Iraq. It appears we have longer to wait. From the Washington Post:
A day after President Bush pleaded with Congress to give his Iraq policy one last chance, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee rebuffed him by approving a nonbinding resolution declaring his troop increase in Iraq to be against "the national interest."The committee voted 12 to 9 to send a resolution of disapproval of the president's Iraq policy to the Senate floor next week, setting up what could be the most dramatic confrontation between Congress and the Bush administration since the war was launched four years ago.
A "non-binding" resolution. That'll teach that rascal in the White House! This strikes me as about the worst thing that the new Congressional majority could do. They could have acted to stop the President from putting more troops in Iraq and pursuing a new, more aggressive policy. That might or might not have been the thing to do, but at least it would have been something. But of course it would have meant taking responsibility.
The enemy in Iraq cannot hope to defeat the American forces on the ground. Their sole strategy has been to convince Americans that the situation in Iraq is hopeless, and to make our tenure there as costly as possible. The Senate's non-binding resolution sends the message that the strategy is working without removing a single soldier from harm's way. That is a curious way of supporting our troops.
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