G.O.P. Moderates Warn Bush Iraq Must Show Gains

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Moderate Republicans gave President Bush a blunt warning on his Iraq policy at a private White House meeting this week, telling the president that conditions needed to improve markedly by fall or more Republicans would desert him on the war.

The White House session demonstrated the grave unease many Republicans are feeling about the war, even as they continue to stand with the president against Democratic efforts to force a withdrawal of forces through a spending measure that has been a flash point for weeks.

Participants in the Tuesday meeting between Mr. Bush, senior administration officials and 11 members of a moderate bloc of House Republicans said the lawmakers were unusually candid with the president, telling him that public support for the war was crumbling in their swing districts.

One told Mr. Bush that voters back home favored a withdrawal even if it meant the war was judged a loss. Representative Tom Davis told Mr. Bush that the president’s approval rating was at 5 percent in one section of his northern Virginia district.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/10/washington/10cong.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

[mmonk]

1. Lol. 5% in one of Davis's districts. Priceless.

[rusty charly]

2. That rubber stamp is bouncing back to hit them in the face.

[fishnfla]

3. Why Sept.? I wonder, nothing is gonna change except KIA/WIA #'s

Doing the same thing, but expecting different results....

[aquart]

4. So they envision September so bad that 35,000 more are needed?

Here's a thought: OUT NOW.