Are these people unaware that while they are dicking around with this non binding resolution the escalation is being carried out? While they are on the news shows night after night blaming each other for the blocking of debate, our soldiers and more Iraqi people continue to die…..day after day after day. 4 more U.S. soldiers died today. WTF?

Senate Republicans who earlier this week helped block deliberations on a resolution opposing President Bush’s new troop deployments in Iraq changed course yesterday and vowed to use every tactic at their disposal to ensure a full and open debate.

In a letter distributed yesterday evening to Senate leaders, John W. Warner (Va.), Chuck Hagel (Neb.) and five other GOP supporters of the resolution threatened to attach their measure to any bill sent to the floor in the coming weeks. Noting that the war is the “most pressing issue of our time,” the senators declared: “We will explore all of our options under the Senate procedures and practices to ensure a full and open debate.”

The letter sent to Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) was not more specific about the Republican senators’ strategy for reviving the war debate. But under the chamber’s rules, senators have wide latitude in slowing the progress of legislation and in offering amendments, regardless of whether they have anything to do with the bill.

Read more at the Washington Post

h/t Bur$atil for the info.

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