You’ve perhaps been seeing the names of Sen. Mark Pryor and Sen. Blanche Lincoln pop up as an emerging bipartisan group looking for solutions on the war. Looks like it will produce something akin to what the amiably compromising Senator Pryor helped bring us on the Supreme Court — right-wing wolves in sheep’s clothing. Here, American lives are at stake, not just the Constitution.

Or so Americablog figures.

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A bipartisan group of Senators has prepared legislation that they want to offer in the next few weeks that would keep US troops in Iraq indefinitely. What’s worse, they’re claiming that the legislation implements the recommendations of the bipartisan Iraq Studgy Group, when in fact, the legislation codifies George Bush’s current failed policies in Iraq.

The misnamed “Iraq Study Group (ISG) Recommendations Implementation Act of 2007,” is being offered by Senators Ken Salazar (D-CO), Lamar Alexander (R-TN), Bob Bennett (R-UT), Mark Pryor (D-AR), Judd Gregg (R-NH), Robert Casey (D-PA), John Sununu (R-NH) and Blanche Lincoln (D-AR). Probably the most offensive thing about the legislation is that it outright calls for the continuation of the status quo policy of keeping US troops in Iraq until the day that Iraq is 100% ready to stand on its own – namely, never.

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