Democrats push timetable

According to an AP story in the DC Examiner the Democrats will push for a Fall ’08 withdrawal from Iraq;

In a direct challenge to President Bush, House Democrats announced Thursday that they will push legislation setting a timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. combat troops from Iraq.

The Democratic plan, said House Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey, will bring an “orderly and responsible close” to American participation in Iraq’s “civil war.”

Any other information they want to give al Qaida? And why did Democrats wait to announce this just as the President leaves the country for delicate talks with our allies to the South? Is this their way of undermining those efforts, too?

Now the Islamic world can just sit back and relax, rebuild and train; they have the schedule. And I wonder why Democrats chose Fall of 2008 as their exit date. What’s happening then?  Why didn’t they really display their cojones and push for Fall 2007? Maybe because Iraq would be bathed in fire by the time elections rolled around if they had and they’d have to admit that they don’t know squat about dealing with terrorists during an election.

The Washington Post writes about the anguished Democrats;

Even in her conservative Kansas district, calls and letters to freshman House Democrat Nancy Boyda show a constituency overwhelmingly ready for U.S. troops to come home from Iraq.

Yet as the House nears a legislative showdown on the war, Boyda finds herself wracked with doubts. She is convinced that Congress must intervene to stop the war, but is fearful of the chaos that a quick U.S. pullout could prompt. “Congress has an obligation to do something,” Boyda said. But she is unsure what to do, worried about anything that “affects commanders on the ground.”

Yeah, I can see how much they care about the commanders on the ground.

Meanwhile, attacks in Iraq are down 80% according to the World Tribune. i wonder if attacks down because they know they can just wait us out – or wait Congress out.

Category: Politics, Terror War