Playing Politics With Iraq By Bob Herbert

Playing Politics With Iraq
By Bob Herbert
The New York Times
Published: June 26, 2006

http://64.226.238.78/PA/bh/bh213.shtml

If hell didn't exist, we'd have to invent it. We'd need a place to send the public officials who are playing politics with the lives of the men and women sent off to fight George W. Bush's calamitous war in Iraq.

The administration and its allies have been mercilessly bashing Democrats who argued that the U.S. should begin developing a timetable for the withdrawal of American forces. Republicans stood up on the Senate floor last week, one after another, to chant like cultists from the Karl Rove playbook: We're tough. You're not. Cut-and-run. Nyah-nyah-nyah!


But then on Sunday we learned that the president's own point man in Iraq, Gen. George Casey, had fashioned the very thing that ol' blood-and-guts Frist and his C-Span brigade had ranted against: a withdrawal plan.

Are Karl Rove and his liege lord, the bait-and-switch king, trying to have it both ways? You bet. And that ought to be a crime, because there are real lives at stake.

It's included in this site:

http://www.topplebush.com/index.shtml#anchorsounding

As usual, Herbert hits the nail on the head.

edit for typo

Can't think of a more suitable place, all broken in by Dubya, and it's got good security, to keep the residents away from everyone else.