Retreat of the antiwar Democrats
Human Events
by Pat Buchanan
09/11/07
In November 2006, Republicans were voted out of power in the Congress and Democrats installed to bring an end to U.S. involvement in the war in Iraq. The war had been going on as long as America’s war on Nazi Germany. No end was in sight. U.S. casualties and costs were rising. Bush’s approval rating had sunk to record lows. The day after the GOP rout, Bush cashiered his war minister, Donald Rumsfeld. In December, the Iraq Study Group, chaired by Bush I Secretary of State James Baker, released its report. … Next April is the date when the Iraq Study Group said all U.S. combat brigades should be out of Iraq. By then, Bush and Petraeus will have tens of thousands more troops in Iraq than when the Democrats were elected and the ISG reported. The lame duck is not all that lame. What happened to the party of Speaker Pelosi and Reid, which was going to end U.S. involvement in the war and not permit Bush to pursue victory the way Richard Nixon pursued it in Vietnam for four years? Answer: Terrified of the possible consequences of the policies they recommend, Democrats lack the courage to impose those policies...
https://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=22325
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Pelosi
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Harry+Reid
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=GOP
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=James+Baker
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Pat+Buchanan
by Pat Buchanan
09/11/07
In November 2006, Republicans were voted out of power in the Congress and Democrats installed to bring an end to U.S. involvement in the war in Iraq. The war had been going on as long as America’s war on Nazi Germany. No end was in sight. U.S. casualties and costs were rising. Bush’s approval rating had sunk to record lows. The day after the GOP rout, Bush cashiered his war minister, Donald Rumsfeld. In December, the Iraq Study Group, chaired by Bush I Secretary of State James Baker, released its report. … Next April is the date when the Iraq Study Group said all U.S. combat brigades should be out of Iraq. By then, Bush and Petraeus will have tens of thousands more troops in Iraq than when the Democrats were elected and the ISG reported. The lame duck is not all that lame. What happened to the party of Speaker Pelosi and Reid, which was going to end U.S. involvement in the war and not permit Bush to pursue victory the way Richard Nixon pursued it in Vietnam for four years? Answer: Terrified of the possible consequences of the policies they recommend, Democrats lack the courage to impose those policies...
https://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=22325
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Pelosi
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Harry+Reid
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=GOP
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=James+Baker
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Pat+Buchanan
rudkla - 12. Sep, 14:57
