When you have a total vote of no-confidence in our foreign policy, like today, that must be heeded. This isn't about random winds. This was a repudiation of Rumsfeld and Bush and the way the war was conducted and the reasons for going to war.
Even if your premise was accurate, we can't simply pull out of Iraq and let it's populace face the ravages that would follow. When we did this in Vietnam over three million people in the region were slaughtered. We must not let that happen in Iraq. If we do, this will be the last time anyone partners with us.
There were a number of dynamics at work Tuesday. Some of it was related to the war. Some of it was related to the Bush' stance on stem cells. Some of it was related to same sex marriage. Some of it was just plain whackjob leftist propagandist disinformation. And then some of it was the perception by some on the right that their hopes and goals were not shared by this president.
This may be more of a referendum on Iraq than I give it credit for, but it doesn't matter. We are in Iraq and we WIll see it through. That's the way it's going to be.
Fine, let them change commanders-in-chief in the constitutional way, the presidential election. Until then they will have a say on financing the war, not on fighting it.