[section9]

No. President will get tougher and more aggressive overseas. It's the smart play. Dems have to support the troops or look like weasels. Watch Iran.

Be Seeing You,

Chris

[Cindy]

Also see my post no. 8 Chris.

[Steel Wolf]

No. President will get tougher and more aggressive overseas. It's the smart play. Dems have to support the troops or look like weasels.

Wishful thinking, amigo. It would have been the smart play a lot earlier. The current forward momentum for a tougher foreign policy is almost nonexistant. As things stand now, there's enough discontent over the war, and specifically the war as waged by the current administration, for the Dems to resist the President at will.

Iran will correctly assume that the American people are tired of foreign conflicts, and aren't looking to start trouble with a country even more volatile than Iraq. The Dems will correctly assume that so long as they don't overplay their hand, they can force the President to assume a less aggressive stance and get away with it. President Bush is on thinner ice than ever before. That's bad footing to be on for tackling a task like Iran.