The Swamp: Bush vs ex-Bush man on war (Chicago Trib)

Originally posted: April 7, 2007
Posted by Mark Silva at 9:06 am CDT

~snip~ But the Democrats aren't the only ones whom Bush is debating these days. One of his own campaign strategists – Matthew Dowd, who served as campaign pollster for the first Bush campaign and key strategist for the reelection campaign – is on the radio voicing his own discontent with Bush and the war in Iraq. ~snip~

MR. DOWD: In my view -- and I'm not a military person -- in my view, we should pick from between one of two policies. We should either bring our -- we should admit that it's a mess there and we need to get our soldiers home and the loss of blood is not going to accomplish anything; we should -- anymore -- we should either do that or we should do some wholesale change in the policy where we really -- the idea that we're going to have a surge of 20,000 or 25,000 or something -- if we really wanted to say we're going to really change what's going on there, it's going to take, you know, 100,000 or 200,000. The problem with that, I think, is that the American public just would not support that.

And so in my view, where the public is today, they want to begin -- they want us to begin withdrawal. And I think that 300 million Americans are smarter than a few people in Washington, and I trust the views of 300 million Americans more than a few people in Washington, D.C. ~snip~

http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/news_theswamp/2007/04/bush_vs_exbush_.html

Text from W's radio address and an NPR interview with Dowd . With some uninformative commentary.