Getting The Votes

It doesn’t look like it’s going to happen.  This might be the big problem with our continued occupancy of Iraq.

Iraqi parliament unlikely to approve long-term presence.

In a White House press briefing yesterday, Iraq war czar Gen. Doug Lute claimed that the Bush administration would not need congressional approval for it’s new long-term occupation plan that envisions an endless, unqualified, “enduring” presence in Iraq. Though it is unclear if Lute is correct in his assertion, it is clear, as Spencer Ackerman [...]