Senators Pull All-Nighter For Debate On Iraq War  —  GOP Denounces Effort As Political Theatrics  —  Democrats rolled out cots and ordered pizzas as they settled in for a marathon Senate debate on Iraq last night that featured numerous speeches but little chance of getting any closer to resolving the stalemate over how to end the war.

Democrats Lack Support to Force Vote on Pullout  —  A handful of Republicans who have distanced themselves from President Bush on the war in Iraq refused Tuesday to back a plan to withdraw American troops from the conflict, leaving Senate Democrats short of the support needed to force a vote on their proposal.

Republicans Call Reid's Bluff  —  Harry Reid kept the Senate in business all night long as a way to publicize the fact that Republicans won't allow cloture on an amendment for retreating from Iraq.  For some reason, Reid apparently thought that this would somehow break the will of the Republicans …

Read It and Weep  —  EVEN BUSH'S INTELLIGENCE REPORT SAYS THE WAR IN IRAQ IS MAKING US LESS SAFE AT HOME.  —  The National Intelligence Estimate that was released today—titled "The Terrorist Threat to the Homeland"—amounts to a devastating critique of the Bush administration's policies on Iraq, Iran, and the terrorist threat itself.