I guess he didn't see - any better than the rest of us - that Congressional Democrats would collapse under Bush's glare rather than rise up and fight back...
"It's more than a risk, it's a riverboat gamble. There's no question that under our system [Bush is] going to be able to deploy these troops without Congress being able to stop him. But he's going to face so many battles over these next few months, on funding for the war, on every decision he makes, that he's basically taking the nation into another nightmare of conflict over a war that no one sees any end to."
-Leon Panetta, Democratic member of the Iraq Study Group, on January 11,2007, the day after Bush ordered 20,000 more troops to Baghdad
This blog will focus on political images I have found all around the Internet, though I will intersperse some commentary and quotes that I find interesting.
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