According to the New York Times, our own senator, Thad Cochran, introduced an amendment to the supplemental Iraq spending bill that would have removed the deadline for withdrawal.

Surely he realizes that the Army will break long before next March if things continue as they have been. Our military should be out of Iraq long before then.

It appears that virtually all the Republicans in the Senate still check their brains (along with two other important bodily parts) at the door before they vote blindly and cowardly the way Bush tells them.

Senate Keeps Pullout Date in Iraq War Bill