September Could Be Key Deadline in War,
WP, May 8, 2007
Congressional leaders from both political parties are giving President Bush a matter of months to prove that the Iraq war effort has turned a corner, with September looking increasingly like a decisive deadline.
In that month, political pressures in Washington will dovetail with the military timeline in Baghdad. Gen. David H. Petraeus, the commanding general in Iraq, has said that by then he will have a handle on whether the current troop increase is having any impact on political reconciliation between Iraq's warring factions. And fiscal 2008, which begins Oct. 1, will almost certainly begin with Congress placing tough new strings on war funding.
Think this has anything to do with the September deadline?
Pentagon identifies 35,000 more troops for Iraq,
WP, May 8, 2007
Mr. Never Changes His Mind is hell bent on throwing our troops' lives away, with both hands.
He thinks that *his legacy*'s wisdom will take
10 or 15 years to be recognized as brilliant.
This is all nonsense, according to senior White House officials. They say that Bush isn't delusional at all and that history will vindicate him, just as it vindicated Lincoln and Truman. "He believes the correctness of his policies-including the war in Iraq-may not be recognized for 10, 15 years," says a Bush adviser. Adds another confidant: "If something reaches his level, it tends to be bad news, but he keeps it all in perspective, and there's no equivocation."
And we are left with the single, basic and glaring truth:
"There were always two debates in the debate over timelines to end the war," said House Democratic Caucus Chairman
Rahm Emanuel (D-Ill.). "George W. Bush is hellbent on January 20, 2009, when he walks out of the door, leaving a box stamped 'Iraq' for the next president. The Republicans are hellbent on not going through the next election with Iraq tied to their ankles. All Boehner said publicly was what Republicans have been saying privately for months."
Speaker Pelosi, set your table to impeach these two madmen. The time to act is NOW.
History will not look kindly on those in power who knew, but lacked the courage to change it.
America's future is literally in your hands.