Congress knows better than the Generals?

One question for Mr. Levin, who I might add is the worst Senator this great state has had in my lifetime: Mr. Levin, you speak of the Iraqi government needing to "look into the abyss." If you recognize that such an abyss is there, why are you so willing to condemn the people of Iraq to it?

Just once, I'd like someone to pose the following questions to the Democratic contenders for President and hold them to it:

Do you disagree with the prevailing military opinion that withdrawal from Iraq will result in an escalation in fighting and genocide? If agree - why are you willing to condemn the Iraqi people to genocide? If disagree - why are your opinions different from those of the military generals on the ground in Iraq?

Levin: GOP must confront Bush before Iraq war can end
Detroit Free Press

WASHINGTON - The Iraq war will start winding down when disillusioned Republicans in Congress confront President George W. Bush to say he has lost their support, U.S. Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said in an interview Monday.

Levin, one of a handful of Democrats shaping his party's Iraq exit strategy, compared what will be required of Republican leaders to what the party's congressional members did in the final days of Richard Nixon's presidency in 1974, when they made clear he had squandered their support in the Watergate scandal.

Levin said he expects that will happen, but he wouldn't say when. But recent events suggest there may be cracks in the GOP's solidarity with Bush.

Some Republicans have said this week that they want to see results from the administration's war policy in September.

White House press secretary Tony Snow cautioned Tuesday that people should "avoid the idea that Iraq is like Oz, and one day, it's going to be black and white, and the next day, you're going to wake up and it's color."

But Levin said that "at some point, some Republican leaders will walk into the Oval Office the way they did with Nixon and say, 'Hey, you're losing your Republican troops in the Congress, and you got to change course. You got to start removing troops instead of surging troops.' "

He also said his party's strategy has succeeded in putting Iraqi leaders on notice that Congress' patience is wearing thin.