Featured Bloggers - May 2007
My colleagues here in the Senate, particularly my Republican colleagues, should know that this is precisely my attitude when it comes to bringing about a change of course in Iraq. Although I did not get everything I sought in the bill before us, I will not give up until the supporters of the President's failed policy accept the realities on the ground in Iraq. They accept that the President's plan is not working, that this war must come to an end and that it is time to for our troops to come home in a safe and responsible way.
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Check out this article in the Las Vegas Sun:
The Senate's growing impatience with President Bush's Iraq war strategy can be seen not only in the maneuvering by Majority Leader Harry Reid. It is also apparent in the evolving positions of Nevada Sen. John Ensign and other Senate Republicans.
Just three months ago, Ensign declined to return to Washington for a Saturday vote expressing the Senate's displeasure with Bush's open-ended troop surge. Ensign called it political posturing by Democrats. He chose to play golf in Nevada instead.
Ensign joined a majority of senators, primarily Republicans, on Wednesday to support a plan that would begin to assert oversight of the war by imposing benchmarks on the Iraqi government and withholding economic development aid if those targets are not met.
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The Senate's growing impatience with President Bush's Iraq war strategy can be seen not only in the maneuvering by Majority Leader Harry Reid. It is also apparent in the evolving positions of Nevada Sen. John Ensign and other Senate Republicans.
Just three months ago, Ensign declined to return to Washington for a Saturday vote expressing the Senate's displeasure with Bush's open-ended troop surge. Ensign called it political posturing by Democrats. He chose to play golf in Nevada instead.
Ensign joined a majority of senators, primarily Republicans, on Wednesday to support a plan that would begin to assert oversight of the war by imposing benchmarks on the Iraqi government and withholding economic development aid if those targets are not met.
Read more. . .
I want to thank the more than 36,000 of you who signed our petition asking President Bush not to veto the Supplemental Appropriations Bill. A bipartisan majority in Congress voted to fully fund our troops and change the mission in Iraq. The President refused to sign the bill into law. That is his right, but now he has an obligation to explain his plan to responsibly end this war.
President Bush may be content with keeping our troops mired in the middle of an open-ended civil war, but I am not; and neither are most Americans.
In the coming days Democrats will continue to reach out to the President. And we hope Congressional Republicans, who have remained silent throughout this debate will work with us as well.
If President Bush thinks by vetoing this bill he will stop us from working to change the direction of this war, he is mistaken.
Thank you for your continued support
President Bush may be content with keeping our troops mired in the middle of an open-ended civil war, but I am not; and neither are most Americans.
In the coming days Democrats will continue to reach out to the President. And we hope Congressional Republicans, who have remained silent throughout this debate will work with us as well.
If President Bush thinks by vetoing this bill he will stop us from working to change the direction of this war, he is mistaken.
Thank you for your continued support
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