According to a Democratic Congressional Staff member, opposition to the Iraq War has disappeared. Here is the quote as it appears in E.J. Dionne's column today in the Washington Post:Privately, Democrats acknowledged that they had expected opposition to the war to grow more than it did this summer. “There was some momentum building up in June and July to change the policy,” said a senior Democratic congressional staff member. “But that's abated. I certainly thought . . . that September would look like a change month, but now it looks less so. Did I not get the memo?
E.J. Dionne comments that Gen. Patreus's testimony helps President Bush's strategy of leaving the Iraq war for some other president to end. Here is what else President Bush is leaving for someone else: reinstituting a military draft. See Lt. Gen. Lute's comments at bottom of column.
