Wednesday, January 31, 2007
Posted by: Hugh Hewitt at 3:58 PM
From the Marine Corps Times' report on this morning's debate:
A group of Senate Republicans is mounting a fierce campaign against any bipartisan resolutions opposing the Bush administration’s Iraq strategy, saying a nonbinding measure can only hurt the U.S.
Sens. John Cornyn of Texas, David Vitter of Louisiana and Jim DeMint of South Carolina see an opportunity to block the Senate from voting on any of the growing number of resolutions that find fault with the Bush plan — already underway — to send an additional 21,500 U.S. troops to Iraq, most of them to Baghdad, in an effort to get sectarian violence under control.
DeMint said every injured soldier he has spoken with has had the same view. “The only thing I have had soldiers ask me is to win this thing, to just win,” he said.
“We all know the Iraqis are not ready,” he added, predicting the collapse of the Iraqi government unless U.S. troops levels in Baghdad are beefed up.