Andrew Sullivan: He's the senator I've been using as my rough guage of whether this president truly has lost his own party on the conduct of the war. So we have a verdict. "Mr President, go back and look at all the options," is Republican for "You've got to be kidding." His position is a completely intelligible one:"The American G.I. was not trained, not sent over there — certainly not by resolution of this institution — to be placed in the middle of a fight between the Sunni and the Shia and the wanton and just incomprehensible killing that's going on at this time. We don't lessen importance of that mission, but it should be performed by the Iraqi forces and not the coalition forces."
The last thing the United States should be doing is entering into a centuries' old theological dispute in the Middle East. No amount of face-saving, rationalizing, or wishful thinking can erase that fact.
SIDENOTE: Sen. Elizabeth Dole Hinting She May Break Loyalty To Bush Over Iraq...
If George Bush loses Elizabeth Dole on the war in Iraq, he is in big trouble. Though North Carolina's senior senator continues to support the war, there are hints she is taking a more independent view of the president's plan to increase troops there. If George Bush loses Elizabeth Dole on the war in Iraq, he is in big trouble. Though North Carolina's senior senator continues to support the war, there are hints she is taking a more independent view of the president's plan to increase troops there.
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