Senator Domenici said he began to question his stance on Iraq late last month, after several conversations with the family members of dead soldiers from his home state, and as it became clear that Iraqi leaders are making little progress toward national reconciliation.
“We cannot continue asking our troops to sacrifice indefinitely while the Iraqi government is not making measurable progress,” Domenici said. “I do not support an immediate withdrawal from Iraq or a reduction in funding for our troops. But I do support a new strategy that will move our troops out of combat operations and on the path to coming home.”
So will this make a difference. I think not. This from White House spokesman Tony Fratto:
You can’t back out of the surge. The surge is in place, and it is going to be in place for some time. What we have to focus on and talk about is what happens sequentially next. And what happens next will be a decision that we have conversations about with Congress and with policy makers here and in Baghdad.
When has the Bush administration given any consideration to what Congress thinks. The more I think about this the more I realize that there is not going to be any change in the way the Iraq War is run until Bush leaves.
Clearly Republicans want the current situation in Iraq to be changed. Not because they think it is wrong. But because they know that if this issue is around next year at this time they’re going to be slaughtered in the November elections. But Bush doesn’t care.
Unless funds are cut off the war will continue until Bush is gone. The likelihood of funds being cut off is very slim. The margins to override a veto are not there. Not there unless there is a fundamental change in the thinking of Republican members of Congress. Right now we are not there; we can only wait and hope.
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