A Plan For Iraq:  Still No Teeth

When is enough enough?  How much more clear do the American people have to be?  Fifty-six percent of us want our military forces withdrawn from Iraq.  Sixty-seven percent oppose Bush's escalation of his war.  Fifty-eight percent support Rep. Jack Murtha's plan to place readiness requirements on troop deployments.  So, what is the latest plan to get us out of Iraq?  

House Democratic leaders are developing an anti-war proposal that wouldn't cut off money for U.S. troops in Iraq but would require President Bush to acknowledge problems with an overburdened military.

Oh, snap!  That'll show him.  How ever will Bush react in the face of such firm resolve?  My guess is, he'll say something like:

The situation in Iraq is unacceptable to the American people -- and it is unacceptable to me...Where mistakes have been made, the responsibility rests with me.

Fellow citizens: The year ahead will demand more patience, sacrifice, and
resolve...Thank you and good night.

...and then Operation Stay-The-Course will continue.  Said Democratic Caucus Chairman Rahm Emmanuel:

...the objective is to "raise the bar of accountability"...the proposal would ensure that "the administration is held accountable as well as the Iraqi government."

We don't need to "raise the bar of accountability," we need to remember who is really being held accountable, and that is the more than 130,000 servicemen and women currently serving as targets in Iraq's civil war.  

It's time for Congress to stop with the non-binding resolutions and meaningless gestures.  It's time...no, it's past time for them to ask:

How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?

And then do something about it.