Comments on: UPDATE: Three words on the Senate Iraq Timeline vote

By: Wolverine

Wolverine — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 03:47:27 +0000

Mission Accomplished, eh?!!!

By: fred

fred — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 23:23:16 +0000

Pathetic, predictable, pusillanimous, loathsome, deplorable, perfidy — all, and worse, apply to those in this Congress voting for our defeat in Iraq.

By: Peter Boston

Peter Boston — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 22:48:17 +0000

It does not begin with a P but unprincipled comes to mind. This may be the worst Congress ever. I don’t care how much the MSM carries their water, the perfidy of the Democrats has to be obvious to most Americans.

By: Duke

Duke — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 22:07:13 +0000

There is a major article on Commentary that explains exactly the strategy we are now using in Iraq. If you haven't read it, do so. Yes, it looks like it's working now, but this is a strategy that won't work overnight.

By: Lem

Lem — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 19:07:40 +0000

I’ll say one thing for democrat “I did not give the gun to Phillip Thompson” Jim Webb of Virginia. At least he is consistent.

Webb votes to leave Iraq as he did his friend – literally holding the bag.

By: joe

joe — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 18:26:19 +0000

I guess Hagel has made up his mind about 08

By: dclydew

dclydew — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 16:39:14 +0000

Lem,

I agree.

By: Lem

Lem — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 16:35:13 +0000

When you read that the vote’s passage is tied to the perceived weakness of the president following the Libby conviction, Gonzales firings, national security letters mishaps and Walter Reed; its clear democrats have dropped all pretences that politics stops at the waters edge.

If Iran’s nuclear program is to be ended in measure by the leadership of the U.S. we are in big dudu.

By: dclydew

dclydew — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 16:24:17 +0000

You know, i think that they’re a lot smarter than you give them credit for.

They know that this will get a veto. However, that paints Bush as the bad guy and they’ll have 18 months to continue to push up idiotic legislation, get it vetoed and make Bush look even more the bad guy.

Then come election season, we’ll still be in a war which Dems will argue they could have ended ‘if only we had a decent President’. Based on the last election cycle, and assuming that they find a candidate that isn’t utterly horrific, then they’ll probably keep control of Congress and gain the White House. Once they’re in the White House, they can stall on the extraction as long as they like and continue the war using excuses that Bush’s actions forced us to stay.

All in all, underestimating a political party’s intelligence (and duplicity) seems bad idea.

By: Roger

Roger — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 15:14:26 +0000

I was looking for “P” words, ElMondo. How about this one?

Pusillanimous.