An editorial in this morning’s Boston Globe is worth 2 minutes of your time:
Bush called the House vote a “political statement” and his spokeswoman said the congressional timetables amounted to “mandating failure.” She said Bush would veto any bill with a withdrawal date.
It is certainly true that the votes are an extraordinary challenge to a president carrying out a war on foreign soil. But what is more historic than the action itself is the accumulation of misguided strategies and bungled efforts on the ground — all defended obstinately by Bush — that led Congress to it.
The mid term elections last November were an undeniable vote of no confidence in Bush’s war, and public support, by most measures, has only continued to sink. The recent House and Senate votes merely reflected this reality. Stubbornly resisting solid advice from the bipartisan Iraq Study Group and others, Bush has become increasingly isolated.
Everyone should remember that the action taken by Congress is in response to the President continually mis-managing this war. Nearly every decision he and his administration has made has been a catastrophe and someone else needs to take control.
I live in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Milwaukee, WI with my wife Jen, our daughter Emerson, and sons Carter and Colton.
