The Nation: Long Debate Better Than Blindly Following Bush

Stop That Talk About Division On Iraq

The Nation: Long Debate Better Than Blindly Following Bush
June 25, 2006

Snip...

Obviously it would be better politically and substantively if Democrats could unite behind one policy — and that policy specified that we should leave, preferably within a year. But I'd prefer a party that openly struggles to find the right policy over one that blindly follows the President over a cliff.

Take one example: Senator Rick Santorum. In August, Senate challenger Bob Casey accused Santorum of failing to ask "tough questions" about the war. Santorum responded that he had raised concerns, "public and privately." When asked to find an example, Santorum's office admitted "that it cannot locate public statements of the senator questioning the Iraq war." Now Santorum is saying we found WMD's in Iraq!

Such situations are all-too frequent. Only three Republicans in the House voted against their party's rigged resolution expressing the sense that "it is not in the national security interest of the United States to set an arbitrary date for the withdrawal or redeployment of United States Armed Forces from Iraq."

Snip...

So maybe the story should be why so many Republicans continue to mindlessly follow this President and his never-ending war?

more...

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/06/23/opinion/main1747865.shtml