In a previous column, I quoted Senator Smith when he openly spoke out against this war in Iraq which was harsher than his quote above. At that time, he said, “the current U.S. war effort is "absurd" and "may even be criminal." He then went onto say, "I for one am at the end of my rope when it comes to supporting a policy that has our soldiers patrolling the same streets in the same way, being blown up by the same bombs day after day.” I would like to ask the senator; who placed you on the end of that rope? It was after all, President George W. Bush, your friend. No friend of mine would ever dream of putting me in that position.
Not to pick on the senator solely, one quote caught my eye which came from GOP pollster Linda DiVall in which she said of congresses low-ranking in the polls, "The voters voted for change and they expected change, and they see an institution still incapable of getting anything done," Not so fast, Ms. DiVall. When the Democratic majority placed within the past war supplemental bill a time line in which we would start to draw down forces in Iraq that is precisely what the American voters wanted as they went to the polls last Election Day.
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