{"id":961,"date":"2007-02-06T05:45:45","date_gmt":"2007-02-06T10:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=961"},"modified":"2007-02-06T05:45:45","modified_gmt":"2007-02-06T10:45:45","slug":"on-the-senate-and-the-iraq-troop-surge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=961","title":{"rendered":"On the Senate and the Iraq Troop Surge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/16995646\/\">Yesterday Republican Senators were able to block debate and a full Senate vote on a non-binding resolution expressing disapproval of President Bush&#8217;s decision to &#8220;surge&#8221; American troops into Iraq<\/a>.  For the forty-seven Senators who voted against cloture on the resolution, their votes amounted to an approval of the President&#8217;s decision to keep the United States engaged in an already lost war in Iraq.  Those forty-seven Senators voted to send more soldiers to Iraq&#8211;indirectly, through the action of voting to prevent debate and an eventual vote on the President&#8217;s policy.  John Warner, the Senator whose own resolution was blocked by yesterday&#8217;s vote, chose to vote against the very resolution he introduced.  For the forty-seven Senators who voted against yesterday&#8217;s resolution they chose to put their party and their political positioning over principle and country.<\/p>\n<p>The war will continue.  Lives will be lost.  Blood is on their hands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday Republican Senators were able to block debate and a full Senate vote on a non-binding resolution expressing disapproval of President Bush&#8217;s decision to &#8220;surge&#8221; American troops into Iraq. For the forty-seven Senators who voted against cloture on the resolution, their votes amounted to an approval of the President&#8217;s decision to keep the United States<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=961\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;On the Senate and the Iraq Troop Surge&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119],"tags":[273,387],"class_list":["post-961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-george-bush","tag-iraq","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}