The NYT seems to misunderstand what’s going on here. The current headline for this story about the Webb amendment (which would have forced the military to equalize time in Iraq with time at home recovering) and its obstruction by filibuster by the Republicans reads “Democrats Fall Short in Effort to Shift Course of Iraq War.” …

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A Republican filibuster in the Senate today shot down a bipartisan effort to restore the right of terrorism suspects to contest their detentions and treatment in federal courts… [snip] The detainee rights bill was an effort to reverse a provision of last year’s Military Commissions Act, which suspended the writ of habeas corpus for terrorism …

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