Posted on 06/26/2007 7:02:27 PM PDT by frankjr
Republican support for the Iraq war is slipping by the day. After four years of combat and more than 3,560 U.S. deaths, two Republican senators previously reluctant to challenge President Bush on the war announced they could no longer support the deployment of 157,000 troops and asked the president to begin bringing them home.
"We must not abandon our mission, but we must begin a transition where the Iraqi government and its neighbors play a larger role in stabilizing Iraq," Sen. George Voinovich, R-Ohio, wrote in a letter to Bush.
"Everyone should take note, especially the administration," said Snowe, R-Maine, noting Lugar's senior position within the GOP. "It certainly indicates the tide is turning."
Other Republicans, including Sens. Norm Coleman of Minnesota and Susan Collins of Maine, expressed similar concerns about Iraq but recently have said they will wait until the September assessment before calling for a change in course, including possible troop withdrawals.
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Mmmmm, 'Top Republican senators'...like Lugar, Voinovich, Collins?
Also from article "Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., called Lugar's speech "brilliant" and "courageous"..." Nuff said.
Bush had better pull a rabbit out of a hat over Iraq by December or we will see much larger numbers of Republican Senators and Reps getting off the War on Terror Bus.
Again: Vuck Foinovich.
He is a filthy dog isn’t he.
Baronness Thatcher would say that these two lightweight RINOs are going wobbly.
Not going to happen, we will start pulling troops out by September. Those due to rotate out just will not be replaced. Poor leadership gives you poor results.
I think I am ready to join them.
Why should we lose one more life defending the cesspool called Iraq, when we have just given up our sovereignty and security here at home with today’s Senate vote.
“We fight them in Iraq so we don’t have to fight them here at home.” What?! We have just opened our borders not only to Islamists but to every other malefactor in the world.
Bring the troops home to fight the waves of MS13 and drug dealers and criminals who have just been given a free pass.
The American experiment is over. Bring democracy to Iraq? Hell - today shows we don’t even have it here at home.
Since when have Voinovich , Snowe and Collins ever supported the war?
Bush, who takes the war soooooo seriously, has burnt any pull he had stay the course in pursuit of amnesty. Expert the coward in the Oval who caved on terrorist rights even when it was a Rep Congress to fold on the war in Iraq now that he thinks he’ll be positively memoralized for destroying this country with amnesty. He’ll go down worse than carter, but he’s too enamored of the deal to bring in slave labor in here legally to realize that.
I still support the war. I am still willing to fight to win. but Bush and his “big tent” couldn’t give a damn. It’s more important to destroy the cnservative movement then destroy Al Quida.
To retreat from Iraq when we all know Al-Qaeda is the primary threat is abandoning the mission.
“Not going to happen, we will start pulling troops out by September. Those due to rotate out just will not be replaced. Poor leadership gives you poor results.”
Damn, that is painful to read, it goes down to a gut level.
Without question, each GOP Senator up for re-election in 2008 will begin running from Iraq very soon.
Had the politicians not hamstrung our military with PC rules of engagement, they would have been free to “kill people and break things” as needed, quickly bringing the war to a successful conclusion. Instead our troops are being blown up daily by the IEDs, courtesy of Iran.
I think going into Iraq was the right thing.
That being said, I think a CINC who cannot grasp the concept of defending one’s own borders is unfit to lead our troops into battle elsewhere.
This is not a slam at the troops in any way shape or form, they are doing the best they can at a job they are neither designed or equipped to handle.
I’ve got a big problem with our so-called “allies” sitting back while we, the Brits, Aussies and a few other brave countries take casualties.
In short, I think the whole foreign relations problem needs a major reset.
FWIW.
the leadership from this congress is criminal
Many are going wobbly. They are weak souls.
The troop surge is good policy. To secure Baghdad is essential and that's what is happening as we speak.
You're right, and if Bush would have controlled the borders in Iraq we would not be in the situation we are in there either. Bush's borderphobia has screwed up this Country and Iraq.
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