1) They have already been briefed as to the planned (classified) draw down for troops next year. (As it turns out, as many as three brigades may be home by the end of the year, per a segment on F&F this morning.)
2)Start making fools of themselves prior to the draw down, demanding a draw down or begin planning the removal of our troops because the war cannot be won.
3)When the previously planned draw down begins, they take credit for pressuring the President to remove our troops. The media (of course) jumps on the bandwagon and asks the President to apologize to the nation for misleading the country into war.
4)Hitlery positions herself as a Senator who supported the war, had misgivings about how it was fought but, now offers herself as the person who can best heal the nation and move the nation forward.
And that, I believe is their plan; no plan at all but, positioning themselves to take credit for when the trrops begin to come home next year.
Isn't Norah O'Donnell the one who made the famous statement about kneepads?
Now I'm smelling a setup.... "Hopeless quagmire", perhaps? I saw a thread yesterday that proclaimed that the Iraq war "could last for decades". However, I also saw where troop level is to be reduced by one-third by the middle of next year.
Here's what I think: I think that Bush, Rove, and the GOP have a comprehensive plan for election '06 and I think that it includes a massive pullout of troops from Iraq in the fall months.
It won't last.