DesertFox
10-10-2007, 10:20 PM
Investors Business Daily
10 Oct 07
... The Democrats have made it official. Having lost every battle in Congress over pulling U.S. troops out of Iraq, they're flying the white flag of surrender. It's the Democrats who've decided they've had enough.
What a change! A year ago, Democrats had turned themselves into the anti-war party to win in Congress. By spring of this year, luxuriating in Bush's falling popularity, they demanded that he withdraw all troops from Iraq by spring of 2008.
"We're going to pick up Senate seats as a result of this war," exulted Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in April, accidentally spilling the real reason for his hard-core stance on Iraq. "Sen. Schumer has shown me numbers that are compelling and astounding."
More (http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=276908548262528)
10 Oct 07
... The Democrats have made it official. Having lost every battle in Congress over pulling U.S. troops out of Iraq, they're flying the white flag of surrender. It's the Democrats who've decided they've had enough.
What a change! A year ago, Democrats had turned themselves into the anti-war party to win in Congress. By spring of this year, luxuriating in Bush's falling popularity, they demanded that he withdraw all troops from Iraq by spring of 2008.
"We're going to pick up Senate seats as a result of this war," exulted Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in April, accidentally spilling the real reason for his hard-core stance on Iraq. "Sen. Schumer has shown me numbers that are compelling and astounding."
More (http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=276908548262528)