D&C editorial on Iraq
The D&C has a good editorial about the war/occupation in Iraq and Randy Kuhl’s position on it. They seem to believe that Kuhl will get off the Bush warmobile come September. I think they may be right, though I am not sure.
All eyes are on September. That’s when Gen. David Petraeus is scheduled to report back to Congress on the troop surge. With 60 percent of Democrats in the House having voted last week against continued war funding, September looms as the start of the downsizing of American involvement in Iraq.
That’s premised, of course, on an unfavorable report from Petraeus, who currently enjoys perhaps the highest rating of any of the Bush team members when it comes to trust.
Like fellow members of Congress, after Petraeus’ report is in, Kuhl will have no choice but to weigh in as a supporter of the status quo or to direct a new course.
A couple points I’d like to make: (1) it’s interesting that Kuhl gets so much attention for his support of the war while Walsh and Reynolds (who have voted with Bush just as much as Kuhl has with one or two exceptions) do not and (2) there’s still plenty of 25 percenters running around the D&C comments screaming about how the terrorists will follow us home. How much longer will the 25 percenters cling to their strange beliefs? That my be the biggest question facing the country politically.
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