Republicans Filibuster Move

Republican Senators have scupped Democrat plans to vote on withdrawing troops from Iraq at the end of April.
Whilst the Democrats have some control of the Senate, such a vote needed a 60 over 40 majority and the Senate voted 52-47 in favour of withdrawing troops.
This was mainly caused by the Republicans filibustering i.e. talking through the debate all night if necessary in order to prevent an overwhelming vote against them and also threatening to clog up other business in the legislature. It is a tried and tested, if sneaky way of making your point!
Only in this case, with confidence in the US at an all-time low when it comes to global affairs, it is not just the Democrats who are suffering. Troop withdrawl could have meant handing over the renewal of Iraq completely over to the UN and such moves lessen such chances and this merely helps add to the continuing misery of ordinary Iraqis across their nation.