MAJOR CHANGE EXPECTED IN STRATEGY FOR IRAQ WAR
By Michael Abramowitz and Thomas E. Ricks

Washington Post Staff Writers
Friday, October 20, 2006; Page A0

The growing doubts among GOP lawmakers about the administration's Iraq strategy, coupled with the prospect of Democratic wins in next month's midterm elections, will soon force the Bush administration to abandon its open-ended commitment to the war, according to lawmakers in both parties, foreign policy experts and others involved in policymaking.

Senior figures in both parties are coming to the conclusion that the Bush administration will be unable to achieve its goal of a stable, democratic Iraq within a politically feasible time frame. Agitation is growing in Congress for alternatives to the administration's strategy of keeping Iraq in one piece and getting its security forces up and running while 140,000 U.S. troops try to keep a lid on rapidly spreading sectarian violence...

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Many senior Republicans with close ties to the administration also believe that essential to a successful strategy in Iraq are an aggressive new diplomatic initiative to secure a Middle East peace settlement and a new effort to engage Iraq's neighbors, such as Syria and Iran, in helping stabilize the country -- perhaps through an international conference...http://tinyurl.com/ydmzxa

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Is this lame or what? This is what Kerry would have been doing 2 years & 200,000+ deaths ago.

Gore would have never got us into this mess.

There's absolutely nothing good or right about the Bush administration.

There's absolutely no reason not to impeach him.

Bush & Co. have been been the biggest piece of shit administration ever. There's no mistaking or ignoring the stink of failure on these people.

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