For Bush’s critics, even hindsight is cloudy.
Victor Davis Hanson points out that the critics of the President's Iraq strategy are in CYA mode. Despite all evidence to the contrary many Democrats, and sadly some spineless Republicans as well, seem to think we have been unsuccessful in Iraq. Thus we have had the sad spectacle this past week of Republican perfidy in the form of a vote in the Senate that echoed the demands for a "timetable" such as the left has been arguing for as a pretext for pullout and surrender. That Republicans went along with this at all is as shameful a betrayal as one can imagine. It sends all the wrong messages to all the wrong people. It was not a sign of confidence or strength and everyone but the Senate Republicans knew it.
Fortunately the Republicans in the house know how to fight back and do have a spine. On Friday they scheduled a debate and a vote on a resolution pertaining to a troop pullout from Iraq. This, of course, gave the cut and run crowd the very opportunity they needed to put their money where their mouths have been for so long. What was the result? The final vote, after all of the whining and moaning of the leftist Democrats was 403 to 3 to reject a pullout. That's right. Democrats are plenty brave when it comes to embedding themselves in The Elite Media Monoculture. But when they actually have to take a stand and go on record they chicken out.
Typical.
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