Senate Condemns MoveOn.org for Its Attack on General Petraeus and American Troops

Learn How Your Senator Voted

While you wouldn't know it from the ongoing media drumbeat, it has been more than a week since MoveOn.org ran its now-infamous ad in the New York Times implying that General David Petraeus, America's top military leader in Iraq, is a traitor.

Most, regardless of their opinion on the war, criticized the full-page print ad, apparently run by the Times at a deep discount, for what it was: A slap in the face to all of our brave men and women in uniform and their families. As Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) recently said on the Senate floor, "The ad was, by any standard, abhorrent. It accused a four star general who has the trust and respect of 160,000 men and women in Iraq of betraying that mission and those troops, of lying to them and to us. Who would have ever expected anybody to go after a general in the field at a time of war, launch a smear campaign against a man we've entrusted with our mission in Iraq."

Noticeably silent amongst the criticism, however, were Democrat leaders in the Senate who initially refused to condemn the ad.

Last week, we alerted CFIF activists to the fact that Senate Democrats were blocking a vote on a resolution introduced by Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) in response to MoveOn.org's actions. The resolution simply expressed the Senate's support of General Patraeus and strongly condemned the personal attacks on his honor and integrity and that of all members of the United States Armed Forces.

CFIF activists responded by sending more than 10,000 faxes in a 48 hour period and flooding the telephone switchboards of key Senate offices demanding a vote on Senator Cornyn's resolution.

Congratulations, the Senate heard your voices and passed the resolution this week as an amendment to the Defense Authorization Bill by a vote of 72-25.

Thank you for making your voices heard. Your willingness to speak out on this and other important issues is truly making a difference.

View the chart below to learn how your Senators voted.*

YEAs -- 72
Alexander (R-TN) Allard (R-CO) Barrasso (R-WY) Baucus (D-MT) Bayh (D-IN) Bennett (R-UT) Bond (R-MO) Brownback (R-KS) Bunning (R-KY) Burr (R-NC) Cardin (D-MD) Carper (D-DE) Casey (D-PA) Chambliss (R-GA) Coburn (R-OK) Cochran (R-MS) Coleman (R-MN) Collins (R-ME) Conrad (D-ND) Corker (R-TN) Cornyn (R-TX) Craig (R-ID) Crapo (R-ID) DeMint (R-SC)	Dole (R-NC) Domenici (R-NM) Dorgan (D-ND) Ensign (R-NV) Enzi (R-WY) Feinstein (D-CA) Graham (R-SC) Grassley (R-IA) Gregg (R-NH) Hagel (R-NE) Hatch (R-UT) Hutchison (R-TX) Inhofe (R-OK) Isakson (R-GA) Johnson (D-SD) Klobuchar (D-MN) Kohl (D-WI) Kyl (R-AZ) Landrieu (D-LA) Leahy (D-VT) Lieberman (ID-CT) Lincoln (D-AR) Lott (R-MS) Lugar (R-IN)	Martinez (R-FL) McCain (R-AZ) McCaskill (D-MO) McConnell (R-KY) Mikulski (D-MD) Murkowski (R-AK) Nelson (D-FL) Nelson (D-NE) Pryor (D-AR) Roberts (R-KS) Salazar (D-CO) Sessions (R-AL) Shelby (R-AL) Smith (R-OR) Snowe (R-ME) Specter (R-PA) Stevens (R-AK) Sununu (R-NH) Tester (D-MT) Thune (R-SD) Vitter (R-LA) Voinovich (R-OH) Warner (R-VA) Webb (D-VA)

NAYs - 25
Akaka (D-HI) Bingaman (D-NM) Boxer (D-CA) Brown (D-OH) Byrd (D-WV) Clinton (D-NY) Dodd (D-CT) Durbin (D-IL) Feingold (D-WI)	Harkin (D-IA) Inouye (D-HI) Kennedy (D-MA) Kerry (D-MA) Lautenberg (D-NJ) Levin (D-MI) Menendez (D-NJ) Murray (D-WA) Reed (D-RI)	Reid (D-NV) Rockefeller (D-WV) Sanders (I-VT) Schumer (D-NY) Stabenow (D-MI) Whitehouse (D-RI) Wyden (D-OR)

Not Voting - 3
Biden (D-DE)	Cantwell (D-WA)	Obama (D-IL)

*Vote tally obtained from the website of the United State Senate.