Tick, tock: eight weeks to genocide
The president and the Democrats in Congress are about to throw down. But as we’ve know for some days now, however this round turns out, the clock is ticking. Come September, we start for the door.
Republican politicians are terrified. Unless we are largely gone from Iraq by November 2008, the GOP faces a rout of historic proportions. The president knows this, and he will, I predict, ultimately acquiesce. His party will leave him without a choice.
This is no longer about what we should or shouldn’t do. It’s now about what we will do. And we will leave. Our exit will be dangerous for us, and deadly for countless Iraqis. It will also be temporary. We’ll be back, perhaps as soon as the term of the next president, and at a cost in blood and treasure far greater than anything we bore here.
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