Only four days into Magical September, and we have full confirmation that Sununu plans on going down the road with Baghdad Bush until the bitter end:
"You don't announce a withdrawal date to our enemy," says Senator John Sununu, a New Hampshire Republican whom Democrats had hoped to win over. "If we take everybody out of there today, we will leave behind a chaotic, destructive situation."
Did John E. just admit that his Bush enabling utterly devastated a country and its people? But I digress...For all of you who think that the war doesn't effect you, this is what John E.'s support of W.'s splurge will soon mean:
Former Pentagon official Lawrence Korb says the only way to maintain the current troop level over the long term would be to reinstitute the draft. "You can't do it with a volunteer army," says Korb, who was assistant defense secretary for manpower from 1981 to 1985. "We've already overstressed the active force."
Will the Sprinter be pressured by his impending electoral defeat into following the will of his constituents, including even those in his own party? Not so much:
To complicate matters, some Republicans who question the war, such as Senator Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, 67, and Sununu, 42, have spurned the Democratic timetable proposal in favor of a less restrictive measure. It calls for a drawdown of U.S. forces and a transition away from a combat role, without setting a schedule for meeting either goal.
... In Sununu's home state of New Hampshire, the Republican chairman of the Dunbarton Board of Selectmen, Mert Mann, says there's growing concern among party voters about the war.
At the grassroots, "what you see is not a total support of the Bush administration," says Mann, 63. "We want it resolved."
To Mr. Mann, respectfully: if you want it resolved, vote for someone else to take Sununu's seat next fall, because it's clear he's made his bed with W. and won't budge. In fact, he makes it crystal clear below that any attempt to offer a viewpoint on Iraq that isn't his (that would be the far majority in this state) is "partisan" and not at all "serious":
