Terrified Republican Senators Set August Deadline for Iraq

[rodeodance]

maybe they are getting a bit scared???

http://www.democrats.com/


Terrified Republican Senators Set August Deadline for Iraq

Submitted by Bob Fertik on April 1, 2007 - 12:33pm.

* OutOfIraq

Labor Day 2007 marks the beginning of the 2008 election campaign. And come Labor Day, the last thing in the world Republicans want hanging around their necks is the disastrous Iraq War.

So what will they do about it? Andrea Mitchell spilled the beans on Chris Matthews' show, and Think Progress has the video.

The Republicans were against the surge but they felt it was fait accompli, and that they were willing to give Petraeus until August. He told them there will be real progress by August. They have told him at a caucus meeting as very, very recently, that if there isn’t progress by August — and real progress means not a day of violence and a day of sanity — that they will pull the plug.

This revelation is so stunning it needs to be broken out piece by piece.

[northofdenali]

1. Ok, where's the dance? I'm hearing the music!!!

Maybe "my" Strykers won't have to go back after all!!

[Monkeyman]

2. Now that would be great to many gone and wounded

[NanceGreggs]

3. So they just figured they'd "go along" with it ...

... and if it meant more casualties in the meantime, well, it's somebody else's kid who will come home in a body-bag, not theirs.

I honest-to-God wonder how some people sleep at night ...

[BayCityProgressive]

4. but wait..

I thought the GOP voted against our bill because time lines help "the enemy" (aka Iraqi's who don't want usa to steal their oil.)

[northofdenali]

5. AMEN, girlfriend -

IF they lived next to, across the street from, around the block of -

would it make a difference?