Senate kills Iraq pull-out
From yesterday’s Washington Times:
The Senate yesterday overwhelmingly rejected a bid to pull out troops from Iraq and cut off funds for combat, a bruising defeat for Majority Leader Harry Reid that highlights the Democratic split over how far to go in opposing the war.The amendment, which was co-sponsored by Mr. Reid, Nevada Democrat, died in a 67-29 procedural vote, with 47 Republicans, 19 Democrats and one independent blocking the plan to start a troop withdrawal in 120 days and cut off funds March 31 to most military operations in Iraq.
Guys, I’m telling you, they are not going to cut off the troops. No matter how much the anti-war left screams, they ain’t gonna’ do it.
Why? Because as much as the American people are tired and upset with the way the war has been handled, they don’t blame the guys patrolling the streets of Baghdad for that mishandling. They know it comes from the top, and they are putting the blame there.
This is the point the anti-war crowd misses, I believe. You regularly see the low poll numbers for Pres. Bush and the equally poor numbers for how people feel about how the war is being handled. People aren’t necessarily pissed about the fact that we are in Iraq, they are pissed about the way we are handling the war in Iraq.
I can assure you, if things were going swimmingly there, no one would give a damn that we stormed through that country, demolished the Iraqi military, and then sent up a semi-permanent camp. We could be there the next 60 years (Germany, Japan) and no one would care.
Even assuming the anti-war crowd gets its way, the reduction in American forces will in no way be total. Congress knows we will still be fighting and killing terrorists in that part of the world. They also know if we screw this up, we may very well be right back in there again.
The standoff between the Democrat-led Congress and the White House over war funds has strained both parties, prompting Democrats to drop troop-withdrawal timetables and Republicans to concede to benchmarks to measure progress in Iraq.“I do not think the right way to leave is with a fixed deadline,” said Sen. Kent Conrad, North Dakota Democrat and chairman of the Budget Committee who voted against the war authorization in 2002 and against the Reid amendment yesterday.
Me neither.
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