When France opposed Bush's adventure into Iraq, GOP Congressman Walter Jones of North Carolina proposed the House cafeteria rename french fries to "freedom fries". Now Jones
wants out of Iraq.
Jones is joining antiwar Democrat and former Presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich in sponsoring a House resolution to call on President Bush to begin plans for a troop withdrawl.
The two are also joined in sponsoring the resolution by congressmen Ron Paul (Texas-R) and Neil Abercrombie (Hawaii-D).
Naturally the White House insists that a deadline for withdrawl boosts insurgents' hopes that they can wait out the conflict.
The Pentagon even invoked prior failures as examples the insurgents would look to, as if they don't already.
Lt. Gen. James Conway, chief of operations for the Pentagon's Joint Staff, said setting a deadline also would send the wrong message to the insurgents, encouraging them "to wait us out."
"If you look at it from the insurgents' perspective, they know our history, just like we study them," said Conway, who was a Marine commander in Iraq.
"And they see where we have withdrawn previously, in Vietnam, in Beirut, in Somalia, and nothing would make them happier, I suppose, than to think that there is a deadline out there," he told a Pentagon news briefing.
The White House says all Bush needs to do is "sharpen his focus" to reverse the plummeting public approval for the war.
Maybe they'll follow the Social Security "sharpening" strategy by doing a Iraq War road show and surrounding Bush with adoring idiots posing softball sycophantic questions (Dear Leader, why do s'pose them libruls hate Muricans soo much?).