Well, there you have it. There's no going back now. I'm sure this will be one of those key turning points written up in the history books.
Today the Senate gave Bush & Cheney backdoor Congressional approval to attack Iran. McCain and Obama abstained from voting on the Lieberman-Kyl Amendment -- a real profile in courage. &*#!%-ing Hillary voted for it, repeating her mistake in 2002 to give Bush authorization to attack Iraq.
(Hillary's vote today brings to mind the immortal words of President Bush: "Fool me once, shame on -- shame on you. Fool me -- you can't get fooled again.")
Here are the 22 sane senators who voted against the amendment, all but 3 of them Democrats:
Biden (D-DE)
Bingaman (D-NM)
Boxer (D-CA)
Brown (D-OH)
Byrd (D-WV)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Dodd (D-CT)
Feingold (D-WI)
Hagel (R-NE)
Harkin (D-IA)
Inouye (D-HI)
Kennedy (D-MA)
Kerry (D-MA)
Klobuchar (D-MN)
Leahy (D-VT)
Lincoln (D-AR)
Lugar (R-IN)
McCaskill (D-MO)
Sanders (I-VT)
Tester (D-MT)
Webb (D-VA)
Wyden (D-OR)
Postscript: The left-wing pressure group Democrats.com is actually celebrating a victory on this vote. They claim that their thousands of e-mails and phone calls to Congress got the two worst paragraphs deleted from the Lieberman-Kyl Amendment, making it essentially "toothless."
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