Coble's job is definitely not in danger. He has been unopposed for many years until November and he cleaned his opponent's clock (my husband's attorney and best friend).
Coble has always been a steady as a rock conservative and I would love to hear more to try to understand what he is thinking.
The thing that confuses me the most about this is that he is calling for the troops to be pulled BEFORE the elections at the end of this month---
What is the hurry? I don't expect the elections to make things any safer right away and I'm sure Bush doesn't either. In fact, it might get worse because Zarquawi will be even madder, but it puts us one step closer to NOT be seen as occupiers which I get the impression is one of the worst things you can be called over there. My goodness, just today the Palestinian people are still talking about the "occupation of Palestine" by the Israelis.
History means nothing to these people---their view of the world is 180 degrees different than we think about these things and it's like hitting head against walls to try to convince them of anything else.