Iraq Target Voting Down
U.S. Senate rejected a binding resolution that “would have set a target date a little more than a year from now for the withdrawal of most U.S. combat troops from Iraq.” Two nonbinding resolutions were, however, approved.
The resolution needed 60 votes to pass. Instead, it didn’t even get the support of the majority: Lieberman joined the Republican Senators, as did Democratic Senators Nelson and Pryor. The result: 48 Senators voted in favor of the resolution, 50 voted against it.
Not surprising that this resolution didn’t pass of course. Everyone knew that it wouldn’t, it was more of a symbolic vote than anything else.
Pamela Leavey, meanwhile, wrote an interesting post for The Democratic Daily that “the Democrats new Iraq plan is similar to John Kerry’s proposal on Iraq from October 2005.” Her conclusion: Kerry was right. Was he? Kerry was only right if one believes that the Democratic plan was ‘right’. U.S. Senate disagreed with that.
3 Responses to “Iraq Target Voting Down”
One wonders what would be happening in Iraq right now if Kerry’s plan had been implemented and our troops were withdrawn. I think the situation would be much worse than it currently is.
But the overwhelming majority of Americans do agree that we should be out within the next year.
Republicans are still playing defense for the administration.
What is right and what was the Senate vote are two separate questions.
The latter is not the standard by which to gauge the former.