WP: Unease Over Iraq Becoming an Issue for 2006

[Pirate Smile]

Unease Over Iraq Becoming an Issue for 2006

By Dan Balz

Sunday, June 19, 2005; Page A04

President Bush's policy in Iraq faces growing criticism in Congress, and now it is figuring into the early stages of the 2006 midterm elections. Rep. Harold E. Ford Jr. (D-Tenn.) launched his campaign for the Senate last week with a television commercial saying it's time to figure out how to start bringing U.S. troops home from Iraq.

Against a patriotic backdrop of U.S. servicemen and women, Ford praises U.S. military forces and then invokes the Fourth of July to conclude by saying, "Let's work hard to bring them home soon, and with honor, and make them as proud of us as we are of them."


Rep. Harold E. Ford Jr. (D-Tenn.) is airing a Senate campaign ad urging President Bush to bring troops home from Iraq. (By Joe Marquette -- Associated Press)

Ford's decision to lead off his campaign in military-friendly Tennessee with a message playing on public impatience with the U.S. mission in Iraq suggests that politicians are sensing a shift in public opinion toward Bush's policy. The Democratic House member said he believes he is on solid ground politically by focusing attention on ending the U.S. mission there.

"Since September 11 <2001>, the country and Congress have given the president the benefit of the doubt, from the Patriot Act to the efforts in Afghanistan to the resolution on Iraq to now the war and postwar efforts," Ford said in a telephone interview. "Now many people are realizing that a new approach and some new ideas are needed."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/18/AR2005061800859.html

[Whoa_Nelly]

1. Ya betcha bottom dollar much has to do with 2006

and distancing themselves fromr the low-poll loser before they gear up for that election cycle.

[Straight Shooter]

2. I guess death and destruction don't matter until your ass is on the line.

:grr:

[Blasphemer]

8. Sigh...

So true. As (cautiously) happy I am over the public's current sentiments towards Bush and his war, the fact that so many Dems supported this madness still hurts. I long for the day when we can embrace true change. It is a sad thing to have to cast a vote for someone who finds a voice only when it's safe and lacks courage when the people most need a leader.

[Cha]

3. ford tested his

fingers in the wind..you better believe he wouldn't say this without .."believes he is on solid ground politically by focusing attention on ending the U.S. mission there."

This is a newsflash..ford breaks from bush. Because bush says..there's no way they're coming home.

[wildcat78]

4. There's a change in the wind..

We're going to have to put the freepers on suicide watch!

[lovuian]

5. that Iraq War is going to coil like a snake around republicans

necks!!! and its not going away and just poisoning slowly till the people will becoming in the billions to get them out!!!

[Cocoa]

6. TV ads for 2006 already?

holy crap.

[Blaze Diem]

7. Great News..We Take back the House by using Bush's assholeness,

Then we IMPEACH the little shit and his pals.
Like taking out an infestation of cockroaches.

[ToeBot]

9. Fine, as long as the DLC finances his campaign

I'd hate to see any real Democrat's money wasted on this guy.