Here's the argument the White House wants Republicans in Congress to use against Democrats in order to win re-election.
...White House officials say will be a central line of attack against Democrats from now through the midterm elections: that the withdrawal being advocated by Democrats would mean thousands of troops would have died for nothing, would give extremists a launching pad from which to build an Islamo-fascist empire and would hand the United States its must humiliating defeat since Vietnam.Unfortunately, we've already got all three. George Bush's lies and incompetence have already killed 2,500 American soldiers. It's hard to spin their deaths as a good thing when they were killed by a president's folly. Second, Bush's incompetence has turned Iraq into an Islamo-fascist state that we now can't do anything about. And finally, George Bush's incompetence has handed us our most humiliating defeat since Vietnam.
It's over. Bush lost Iraq. And no amount of partisan bluster by the White House or congressional Republicans will change the sad fact that our president is a dangerous idiot.
