Once we get on the Iraq escalator, we should understand that it has no end point. We will end up cluster-bombing Sadr City and killing the Iraqi soldiers we have trained. Once you accept escalation as a legitimate tactic, the escalating party can simply assert that the process has not gone far enough.
If the Democrats lack the spine to stop Bush NOW, they will be complicit in the equivalent of Nixon's Cambodia bombing. Have we become so estranged from reason that the Congress will allow a foolish and destructive prolongation of a disastrous war waged by an incompetent President? If so, then we truly deserve the contempt of the world.
It has been said that Iraq is the Vietnam war on crack. We have so far avoided the analog to the spillover stage of the Vietnam conflict that destroyed the neighboring nation of Cambodia. It is not too late to contain the horror of Iraq. Wake up, America, and stop the madmen in the White House.