War in Iraq: Not Over Yet!

In case you'd been holding your breath:

In an ominous sign for the Democratic legislative campaign to end the war in Iraq, the Senate on Thursday rejected a resolution that would have required President Bush to begin withdrawing U.S. combat troops within 120 days after it was enacted.

Two Democrats joined one independent and all but one Republican to reject the measure, 50 to 48, marking the third time in the last six weeks that an antiwar resolution has foundered in the closely divided Senate.

Full L.A. Times story .

Comments

sage | March 16, 2007, 3:01pm | #

And so what you ask
war on terror and on drugs
forever amen

joe | March 16, 2007, 3:13pm | #

Closer every time.
One of these days it will work.
Keep on pushing, Dems!

pleasenote | March 16, 2007, 3:14pm | #

sage,

Are you implying that the war in Iraq is part of the war on terror? How totally retro-neocon of you. Happy Paddy Day.

CaptainHolly | March 16, 2007, 3:15pm | #

Democrats boldly
predicted the fall of Bush
Yet no bill is passed

Brian Doherty | March 16, 2007, 3:16pm | #

Did I miss the national haiku day declaration?

Captain Holly | March 16, 2007, 3:19pm | #

Brian plaintively
asks Why the haikus today?
Because sage did it.

VM | March 16, 2007, 3:21pm | #

Brian Doherty
check out the thread that's below
the one on warming

Sage started it all
with a silly haiku verse
now it's all the rage

haiku-number | March 16, 2007, 3:22pm | #

Brian Doherty,
Read the global warming thread
where this all began.

sage | March 16, 2007, 3:22pm | #

Pleasenote please help me!
Bush finally brainwashed me
Iraq not terror!

JimmyDaGeek | March 16, 2007, 3:31pm | #

Brian Doherty
is living in denial.
Cares not for Haiku.

crimethink | March 16, 2007, 3:34pm | #

For a magazine
Called Reason you are quite slow
Everybody drink

Captain Holly | March 16, 2007, 3:38pm | #

This "Haiku Friday"
is a great idea. But it
needs Tim Cavanaugh.

haiku-number | March 16, 2007, 3:44pm | #

not "haiku Friday"
it would be too much weekly
how 'bout once a year?

crimethink | March 16, 2007, 3:45pm | #

Tim desert us for
L.A. rag, is first against
wall when we rise up

haiku-number | March 16, 2007, 3:45pm | #

I get nothing done
I write too many haiku
I may get fired

crimethink | March 16, 2007, 3:48pm | #

Reason writers should
post in haiku form, else I
cancel subscription

VM | March 16, 2007, 3:49pm | #

Good thing that welfare
exists for haiku number
he gets free handout

As long as Iraq
is linked to war on terror
it will never end

Hiroshi | March 16, 2007, 3:58pm | #

"Sage started it all
with a silly haiku verse
now it's all the rage"

By definition
The last line in a Haiku
That is not your dog

joe | March 16, 2007, 4:08pm | #

The vote on the resolution was 48-50. However, if you assign each Senator 1/2 of his state's population, the vote was approximately 147,700,000 yea - 114,100,000 nay (using 2000 Census figures).

That's 56.5% yeah, 43.5% nay.

I wonder what it would look like to break down yea,nay votes by adding up the total votes that when to each Senator the last time they ran.

On Haiku | March 16, 2007, 4:14pm | #

Haiku Form:

English-Language haiku is incorrectly said to have a prescribed form, three lines of 5-7-5 syllables and a seasonal reference. However, there is a great deal of debate about the form of English haiku and few agree that the 5-7-5 season reference form is the only acceptable form.

What then is the form of a haiku? Some of the critical aspects of haiku form that have been mentioned are:

brevity [one to three lines totaling 17 syllables or less]
three lines -- some would insist of 5-7-5 syllable structure, some suggest a structure of three lines with 5 or less, 7 or less, 5 or less syllables.
when read aloud, can be completed in one breadth
avoidance of traditional English poetic forms, such as rhyming and metaphor.

JUXTAPOSITION … TWO ELEMENTS OR LINES OF THE HAIKU INDIRECTLY RELATE TO A THIRD.

descriptiveness ... haiku describe, they don't prescribe or tell.

ed | March 16, 2007, 4:23pm | #

Must stop must stop must
stop must stop must stop must stop
must stop must stop now.

haiku-number | March 16, 2007, 4:24pm | #

is that pedantry?
you make yourself sound so smart
you should loosen up

NotThatDavid | March 16, 2007, 4:41pm | #

joe shows Senate not
Majoritarian, and
Founders say, "no shit."

The Real Bill | March 16, 2007, 5:05pm | #

joe is a demo
says majorities should rule
democracy sucks

peterh | March 16, 2007, 6:09pm | #

GOP….against ending War(s)

Gene Berkman | March 16, 2007, 7:54pm | #

It is noteworthy that Sen. Hagel voted against the resolution to start winding down the war. Not really much of an "antiwar Republican."

Antiwar conservatives and libertarians really have only one choice in the Republican primaries - Ron Paul.

joe | March 16, 2007, 9:04pm | #

joe, in the winter
wrote that just to show, the nay
votes are out of touch

edna | March 16, 2007, 11:14pm | #

i hate government.
republicans suck.
so do the damn democrats.

DADIODADDY | March 17, 2007, 1:13pm | #

poetry police...up against the virtual wall...assume your (previously staked out) position

wayne | March 18, 2007, 11:29am | #

Gore won popular
yet he is not president
electoral rule.

wayne | March 18, 2007, 11:31am | #

In the springtime
the blood of iraqis flow
terror not so bad now.

wayne | March 18, 2007, 11:33am | #

terror blooms in mind
when reason is in a bind
peace is hard to find

joe | March 18, 2007, 11:38am | #

Clorine gas truck bombs
Not so bad, I guess, when you're
Home, safely typing.

joe | March 18, 2007, 11:39am | #

Drug war shills tell us
Good numbers mean stay the course
Bad number do, too.

wayne | March 18, 2007, 11:43am | #

chlorine gas truck bombs
are the work of peace makers
terror, what terror?

joe | March 18, 2007, 11:50am | #

Flailing at straw men
Is so much easier than
Facing truth, eh wayne?

joe | March 18, 2007, 11:51am | #

OK, admits wayne,
There are horrible, growing
Attacks. But...hippies!

wayne | March 18, 2007, 12:20pm | #

Terror experts here
Democrats all peddling fear
hail cotton eyed Joe.

wayne | March 18, 2007, 12:21pm | #

Good night, Joe!

joe | March 18, 2007, 12:26pm | #

Those Democrats who
"Peddle fear," wayne tells us
If they win, world ends.

edna | March 18, 2007, 12:54pm | #

the problem is not
the democrats' politics,
it's the enemy.

radical islam
has become the mainstream creed
in too many states.

the first people that
will lose their heads to a sword
are the kindly libs.

joe dies protesting
that he supported their right
to kill their own kind.

little did he know
that their ambition extends
beyond killing jews.

too late that we learn
their religion is a threat
if you don't believe.

i'm an atheist
which makes me an attractive
try for a two-fer.

for killing a jew
who is also atheist
paradise awaits.

wayne | March 19, 2007, 1:31am | #

If democrats win
the world continues apace
lib pockets lined now.

joe | March 19, 2007, 10:21am | #

edna,

You can come out of the safe room. "Radical Islamists" aren't going to be taking over the United States any time soon.

Bedwetters.