WP: Democrats Press Bush Harder on Iraq War

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Democrats Press Bush Harder on Iraq War
Dropping Public Support Fuels Ire

By Charles Babington and Dan Balz
Washington Post Staff Writers
Wednesday, June 22, 2005; Page A06

Congressional Democrats, after months of sporadic and often tepid critiques of the administration's handling of the Iraq war, are sharpening their criticisms and demanding that President Bush say more about the mission's difficulties and his plans for surmounting them.

A blunt speech yesterday by Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. (Del.), who said disaster in Iraq is "a real possibility," was the latest example of mainstream Democrats becoming more forceful in expressing their alarm as polls show drooping support for the war. The Senate's 44 Democrats plan to meet today to discuss Iraq.

"There is rising concern that everything seems to be going the wrong way," Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) said in an interview. "Support is dropping drastically." Bush, she said, "has got to give regular progress reports" to Congress and the public on topics such as the training of Iraqi troops and police to take over their nation's security. "It has to be the president," she said. "It's his war."

Despite the notable surge in such comments, only the most left-leaning Democrats have called for specific changes to Bush's policies, such as setting a schedule for withdrawing U.S. troops. Most Democrats are sticking to familiar themes, such as urging allies to help pacify Iraq and to train Iraqi troops and police.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/21/AR2005062101474.html

[Justice]

1. "It has to be the president," she said. "It's his war." Amen

and don't let him distance himself from it!

[MichiganVote]

2. Why don't these damn policians focus on Halliburton?

What is wrong with these people? Are the whole lot of them mental?