Okay Bye!

The GOP can call it cut and run if they want but Iraq wants us out and they want a timetable - as the Democrats have suggested. Sounds like a plan to me!

If this Newsweek story
is correct, the war is over. Iraqi PM Nouri Al Maliki will present a
reconciliation plan tomorrow that essentially uses anti-occupation
sentiment to unite the country, which means offering the Sunni
insurgents amnesty for anti-U.S. attacks and demands a timetable for
U.S. withdrawal. President Bush will be put in the position of either
endorsing precisely what he has for over a year defined as defeat
or defying what he insists is a sovereign government on the most
important aspect of sovereignty there is. It's hard to see how Bush can
reject Maliki's proposal, but it's worth stating that he should accept
it wholeheartedly and begin negotiations for a decent interval to get
out of Iraq. He'll be able to say, first, that he ended the war, and
second, that he ended it in accord with his objective of allowing a
democratically-elected government to decide its future for itself. It
may not keep Iraq together, and it may not get rid of jihadist
terrorism emanating from Iraq, but it's as close as we'll get to
victory, and allows us withdrawal with honor. Let's take it.