GOP senators maintain war (Editorial from Madison, WI):

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http://www.madison.com/tct/opinion/201967

GOP senators maintain war

An editorial — 7/19/2007 10:22 am

A night of debate about whether to debate about the war in Iraq yielded two results:

1. Limited progress on getting an honest up-or-down vote on whether to begin withdrawing troops from Iraq on a schedule that might finish before the end of George Bush's presidency.

2. Confirmation that many Senate Republicans who delight in holding press conferences to talk about what's wrong with Bush's war are, in fact, the primary facilitators of that war's continuation.

The cloture vote on whether to allow consideration of an amendment to begin withdrawing troops needed the support of 60 senators.

Only 52 senators voted to get serious about establishing an exit strategy by opening debate on a proposal from Michigan Sen. Carl Levin and Rhode Island Sen. Jack Reed to begin withdrawing troops within 120 days on a timeline that would be completed by April 2008.