The Senate Foreign Relations Committee has just rejected President Bush's plan to add more troops in Iraq.  On a bipartisan vote, the committee approved a resolution expressing clear disapproval of Bush's Iraq policy only one day after he asked Congress to give it more time to work in his State of the Union Address.  The vote is nonbinding, but supporters hope it will convince the president to reconsider his current position.  The measure will now be sent to the full Senate for a vote expected by next week.

I like the idea of now the entire Senate gets to vote on the nonbinding resolution.  The only thing I don't like about it is that it is nonbinding.  I feel that this new plan for Iraq will be yet another failed policy and is a huge mistake.

Sounds to me like an "endgame" strategy has just got thrown out of the window.  By adding more troops, there is no way we are getting any closer to moving out of Iraq.

Congress needs to draft and fully support some sort of measure to block the increased troop levels in Iraq, not a nonbinding resolution.  The nonbiding resolution sponsered by Joe Biden (D), Carl Levin (D), and Chuck Hagel (R) is a great start in seeing some change for the course in Iraq.  I hope to see more support for this type of action to come, because something needs to be done to stop our president from making more mistakes in Iraq.

A 15 year old girl from India hung herself in response to the Saddam hanging just a few days ago. After watching the hanging on TV, her father said she kept on replaying the event and would not eat in protest of the hanging.

I won't lie to you. I was sort of depressed after I heard the news that Saddam was hung. I was not, however, so depressed to the point where I wanted to hang with him. I don't see how a 15 year old girl would want to do such a thing to her self. The part I don't understand is that her father sat there with her watching the execution and did nothing while she replayed the event to the point where she became depressed. The father should have make the daughter turn off the TV and not allow her to watch it over and over again. In my opinion, the father is somewhat at fault for her suicide.

Common sense will tell you that witnessing an event of this magnitude can have great effects on people. I just hope that we don't start hearing about mass suicides popping up around the world in protest of the Saddam execution.