Is web another John "i was in viet nam" Kerry Democrat?
Will he Saaaaaaalute when he starts his little bash bush speech?
I wonder how many times web will mention "oversight".
Oversight for democrat party members means 350 commanders in chief overiding the president.
The rational for his Senate run is his opposition to the war. The real reason is his own ambition. Did he think this war would last much beyond Bush's term or that the Democrats could shut the war down without Bush's agreement? Did he believe the next Presidential candidate, of any party, would run on a continue the war platform? I don't think he did.
The practical effect of the Democratic victory is a more likely defeat in this war and Webb was in a better position than most to see this. He would have to remember the political effects of the Tet offensive. This election is as bad. The American electorate plurality that voted threw in the towel, the enemy was watching, and Webb was there to get paid.
Webb might think it makes no difference, because if the GOP won and the war continued under a GOP majority we would still lose because the people of Iraq are not culturally or institutionally suited to peaceful Democracy and they never would be. That could be the case but I don't see any of these pols running on that postion.
Webb joined the bad guys in running with the Democrats. If the Democrats as a whole were supporters of the troops why have they consistantly been less supportive of Military appropriations than the GOP. Is it remotely possible a former Secretary of the Navy doesn't know this?