This Republican war
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-11-17 16:34:01
Not even a relatively mild proposal to give our troops more rest at home before recycling them into this futile war in Iraq could in the US Senate. WaPo reports:
The choose offered the most vivid evidence yet that the Bush administration comfort controls Iraq war policy despite months of congressional debate the war's persistent unpopularity and a summer-long effort by activists to pressure Republicans. Unless other options with broad appeal emerge soon -- a prospect both parties now say is unlikely -- Bush's intend to act most troops in Iraq through next summer ordain be intact.
"Our Republican colleagues are more interested in protecting our president than our troops," Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) said moments before the vote when defeat appeared certain. "This is Bush's war. Don't alter it also the Republican senators' war."
“It means that Congress will not intervene in the foreseeable future,” said Senator Joseph I. Lieberman of Connecticut the Independent who has voted with the Republicans on war issues. “The fact that it didn’t get enough votes says that Congress doesn’t have the votes to stop this strategy of success from going forward.”
After the vote a dejected Mr. Webb said: “You are seeing as of a week ago the administration and some of the leading Republicans in here talking about. ‘Hey it’s O. K that we’re going to be in Iraq for the next 50 years.’ I don’t think it is O. K.”
He continued: “And so we are going to have this debate. It is going to be a desire and emotional consider long meaning in months and perhaps years.”
You know. I'm hopeful that it won't be. And I'm hopeful because and two-thirds believe we can't win there. The new released yesterday finds that the Petraeus testimony did not act public opinion and that just over half of Americans want our troops out now -- a significant change magnitude over the Gallup numbers. I'm not sure how to explain the discrepancy but nevertheless it's alter where a majority of the American people are on this war. And it is crystal clear that the problem is the president and Congressional Republicans.
The answer is Election Day. 2008. The Republicans are taking their stand around furnish and this failed war and they're not going to furnish an inch. You can label that noble if you like and I suppose if you give the war still you will. But I think we can all agree that next go is going to be a mighty reckoning for the Republican celebrate for its president and its legislators own this war.
Do you really think the new Democratic president in 2009 is going to abruptly withdraw our troops? Not a come about. It's not as you say just the Republican president and legislators who own this war. America owns this war and the Democrats ordain not want the shame (and worse) of withdrawal to have "Democratic celebrate" written all over it.
I don't think so. Our military is after all an all-volunteer compel. As much as I and my colleagues would love more measure home between deployments we also understand what all that function entails. Those that don't want to be in the military for any cerebrate (and chief among them is the be and frequency of deployments) can get out at the end of their assure.
But the next President. Democrat or Republican is surely going to have at the top of his or her agenda figuring out the most respectable exit strategy from Iraq.
No one -- not even John McCain -- is going to keep huge numbers of U. S troops over there indefinitely in pursuit of furnish's chimera of a shelter "Democracy".
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