CASEY AND MURTHA

There is a big difference between withdrawing troops when we believe that the Iraqi security forces are capable of taking over, and declaring defeat and withdrawing them according to a fixed time-table. That’s why I oppose Jack Murtha’s position, oppose the straw-man amendment voted yesterday in the House, and support McCain’s basic line. But it is nevertheless interesting, isn’t it, that General Casey, who has been doing by all accounts as good a job as he can, has already offered Rumsfeld a plan for troop reduction next year, according to CNN. I wonder when the GOP sheep in Congress will start calling Casey a coward.