Not Exactly Supporting the Troops

[im10ashus]

Here's an interesting political position: Keep U.S. troops in Iraq and signal to the Iraqi government that its O.K. to pardon insurgents who kill Americans.

Even in the frequently surreal debate over this absurd war, that sounds like too warped a position for anyone in Congress to take.

Yet, that's the stance 19 senators took Tuesday.

Florida Senator Bill Nelson proposed a simple amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2007. It sought: "To express the sense of Congress that the Government of Iraq should not grant amnesty to persons known to have attacked, killed, or wounded members of the Armed Forces of the United States."

Seventy-nine senators -- all the Democrats who participated in the vote, as well as most of the Republicans -- backed the Nelson amendment.

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http://www.thenation.com/blogs/notion?bid=15

[endarkenment]

1. This is grandstanding of the worst sort.

How about 79 senators voting instead to do something real: get our troops out of there. Of course there will be an amnesty for the Iraqi insurgents. How else will there ever be peace?