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.