David Brooks: ‘Majority Just Isn’t There’ For A Withdrawal From Iraq By April 2008

[babylonsister]

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/26/brooks-incoherent/

David Brooks: ‘Majority Just Isn’t There’ For A Withdrawal From Iraq By April 2008

Last night on PBS’s Newhour, New York Times columnist David Brooks argued that Congress acted “reasonably responsibly” in removing timelines from the Iraq supplemental.

Brooks incoherently argued, “The country wants to get out of Iraq, but they don’t want to get out precipitously. They want a managed withdrawal. The majority just isn’t there. So the majority in the Congress had to accede to those two realities.” Watch it at link~

It’s unclear what point Brooks is trying to make. He either doesn’t understand what the American public wants or he doesn’t understand the timetable legislation.

Brooks’ own paper conducted a poll recently that found “sixty-three percent say the United States should set a date for withdrawing troops from Iraq sometime in 2008.” The bill that the Senate and House passed with bipartisan majorities — and Bush vetoed on the fourth anniversary of Mission Accomplished — set a goal for the phased withdrawal to be completed by April 2008.

[Edgeoforever]

1. Hey, isn't this one of the "National leaders" AAR interviewed for the relaunch?

He must be right, AAR sez it so! :sarcasm:

[SergeyDovlatov]

2. ridiculous

Majority is enough to stop the war if there is a will to do so.
By simply not passing a funding bill, democrats can stop the war.

White house does not have an ability to raise funds to fund the war on its own. It needs congress to fund it and a simple majority is quite enough to not produce a funding bill.

I don't think that senate and congress democrats committed enough to do it. They talk the talk, but don't walk the walk.

[pscot]

3. Well! I guess that settles that.

After all, David Brooks is an expert on what the country really wants.

[Rydz777]

4. Sure, a neocon really has insight into what the country thinks. n/t

[WinkyDink]

5. Does anyone SERIOUSLY BELIEVE that the citizenry wouldn't be THANKFUL

if we upped and left Iraq TOMORROW??

Yeah, there's be some R-W bee-yotching and moaning, but EVERYTHING WOULD FADE in the face of our troops' coming HOME.