[Alberta's Child]

I think he's dead wrong on this. Our problem in Iraq isn't that we've "lost our nerve" . . . it's that we haven't had much nerve to begin with -- or that we haven't put the nerve we do have to good use.

The GOP lost last week not just because of anti-war sentiment from the left, but because of anti-war sentiment from the right. The left never wanted to be there in the first place, while the right has no patience for a half-@ssed military campaign in times like this.

[sarasota]

The left may never have wanted to be in Iraq in the first place but their representatives voted to be there. Where were their voices then? Surely you agree with Steyn that Rumsfeld "certainly shouldn't have been tossed on Wednesday morning" (under the bus)? He goes on, "The president's firing of Rumsfeld was small and graceless." He nailed it.