Anti-climax

Iraq | Historic votes against the Iraq War prove to be less about “don’t go” and more about “show” | Becky Perry

If you watched C-SPAN coverage of a weekend Senate vote on the nonbinding Iraq war resolution, you might have seen a half dozen U.S. senators delivering impassioned speeches against the troop surge proposal. If you read the New York Times story, you'd learn that while the GOP blocked the resolution, seven Republicans crossed ranks, allowing Senate Democrats to claim a symbolic victory in the debate about Iraq.

But the view from the Senate galleries during the rare Saturday session told a bigger story.

The session, which interrupted the Presidents Day recess specifically for a vote on Iraq, opened at noon. An hour later, there were fewer than 10 U.S. senators on the floor. Sens. Joe Biden (D-Del.), Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.), and Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.) were indeed preaching the futility of the Iraq War—but only to the C-SPAN cameras.

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