Warner treading the line...

[Flabbergasted]

He's not necessarily "supporting Bush"

He's not necessarily "not supporting the troops"

He is saying that it's Iraq's Fault...

However if you asked him "for what?" He would not necessarily have an answer because everyone knew it would end up like this and there is no room in the Conservative mindset for reconciliation.

Absolute Pure idiocy

Republicans are in big trouble.




Warner: Bush Should Bring Troops Home

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: August 23, 2007
Filed at 8:12 p.m. ET

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Bush should start bringing home some troops by Christmas to show the Baghdad government that the U.S. commitment in Iraq is not open-ended, a prominent Republican senator said Thursday.

The move puts John Warner, a former Navy secretary and one-time chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, at odds with the president, who says conditions on the ground should dictate deployments.

Warner, R-Va., said the troop withdrawals are needed because Iraqi leaders have failed to make substantial political progress, despite an influx of U.S. troops initiated by Bush this year.

The departure of even a small number of U.S. service members -- perhaps 5,000 of the 160,000 troops in Iraq -- would send a powerful message throughout the region that time was running out, Warner said.

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Iraq-Congress.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

[saltpoint]

1. I bet Dick Cheney is less than pleased with John Warner this evening.

Warner wouldn't risk alienating his donor base in Virginia by making such a high-profile comment on Bush's war if he were going to run for re-election. Mark Warner -- the GOOD Warner from Virginia -- what do you bet Mark Warner's phone has been ringing off the hook all day long?

Davis is not a pushover, and many Repuublicans will turn out in Virginia in this Senate race, but if the good Warner is interested in that job, I think it's more his today than it was a couple days back.

Go, Democrats.