Durbin Proposes Dirty Deal

Illinois Senator Dick Durbin -- spokesman for the "Vallandigham Democrats -- has declared that he will only support additional funding for the Iraq War if it comes with a commitment to withdraw the troops.  It's too bad Senator Durbin sees no compelling reason to wait for General Petraeus' report before he panders to his base, reaffirms his absolute refusal to acknowledge any progress on the ground and expresses what appears to be a "devil may care" attitude about an American defeat and the consequent bloody upheaval that would consume the Iraqi people.  The good Senator also had this to say:

“I used to think this war was our worst foreign policy mistake in a generation. Now I think it is our worst foreign policy mistake ever,” he added.

I hate to disagree with you Senator, but our "worst foreign policy mistake ever" was withdrawing from Vietnam and abandoning the South Vietnamese to their fate.  Regardless, I take great comfort in the fact that Senator Durbin's view on the next supplemental appropriation bill is in all likelihood going to be a minority viewpoint in the Senate as several members of his own Party are unlikely to go to the wall for withdrawal in light of the latest reports out of Iraq. 

Comments

[C.S.S.]

I think I agree with his quote you boxed in. I can't think of any bigger American blunder. At least in Indo-China we were asked to join in, and didn't start it ourselves. Starting wars isn't an American tradition. Iraq wasn't a threat to America, certainly not to my zip code, and that's the only time a pre-emptive war should be started, ala the Israeli 7-Day War.