Senate Moves Toward Ending the WarPaul Hogarthbyline‚ Mar. 28‚ 2007Yesterday, the U.S. Senate voted 50-48 to defeat a Republican amendment that would have removed a withdrawal date from the Iraq budget supplemental. On March 23, the House passed a budget that creates an actual deadline to get out of Iraq – using Congress’ power to fund the War as a means of bringing our troops home. Now the Senate must act. Democrats have a much smaller majority in the Senate than in the House, so the chances of passing a bill that calls for withdrawal was highly unlikely. Yesterday’s Senate vote shows that more Democrats – and even a few Republicans – are waking up to reality, and understand that we need to end a War that should have never been waged at all. It also creates a problem for Blue State Republicans who are up for re-election in 2008, but refuse to challenge the President. |