These paragraphs say so much:
Three months after Democrats took power in Congress, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said the moment was at hand to "send a message to President Bush that the time has come to find a new way forward in this intractable war."All through the Iraq debate, Republicans keep warning us about emboldening the terrorists in Iraq. Not sure how much more emboldened those terrorists in Iraq can get. Four years after George Bush told us the mission was accomplished, those terrorists in Iraq continue to engage the most powerful military in the world. That seems to have really emboldened them.
But Republicans _ and Sen. Joseph Lieberman, an independent Democrat _ argued otherwise.
John McCain, R-Ariz., a presidential hopeful, said that "we are starting to turn things around" in the Iraq war" and that a timeline for withdrawal would embolden the terrorists in Iraq and elsewhere.
McCain and Lieberman keep trying to prop up Bush and his failed war policy by claiming progress where there is none.
And, one more time, Maine's Susan Collins proved she is no moderate. She plays one in Maine, then votes with her right-wing Republican leaders, Mitch McConnell and Trent Lott, in DC.
