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Poll after poll before the midterm elections last week asked Americans one question: Which issue is most important to you in deciding your Congressional votes? In the majority of those polls, significant proportions of voters cited Iraq as their single most pressing concern. When the Democrats gained control of both the House and Senate for the first time since 1994, the electorate sent an unambiguous message that they were furious with the Bush administration’s failed foreign policy and handling of Iraq...
...heels of outgoing Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld’s ouster and the midterm elections—in which the war in Iraq was considered a prevailing factor—students debated the relative merits of “staying the course” versus “leaving Iraq to the Iraqi people.” Hosted by the Campus Political Society, last Thursday’s debate—the fourth in a semester-long series of seven—explored the question “How and under what conditions the United States should withdraw...
Third, condemning Bush's conduct of the Iraq war has become an overly handy cop-out for people who don't want to support the war but can't bring themselves to say it was wrong. This would include almost every Democratic candidate in last week's midterm elections. What would these Monday-morning quarterbacks have done differently? Sent in more American troops? Puh-leeze...
Like most clichs, both have a lot of truth to them. However, the messy outcome of our occupation of Iraq, the resounding repudiation of that enterprise in the midterm elections and the ride to the rescue by Bush family fix-it man James A. Baker III prove that the first clich remains more useful than the second...
...There is more interest, however, in the results of the midterm elections. On Thursday, Iraqi TV stations extensively reported the Democrats' victories in the House and Senate, but scarcely mentioned Rumsfeld. Among Iraqis in the Green Zone - which is to say the political "sophisticates" - Rumsfeld's departure, taken together with the Democrats' capture of the House and Senate, can mean only one thing: a quicker withdrawal of U.S. troops...