Long shot call: I think the Pentagon *and* Congress will end Iraq occupation/war.

[pinto]

The Executive seems bent on staying the course.

The State Department seems co-opted.

Yet the rumblings in Congress and the Pentagon may well spell the end to this fiasco. As Congress looks to limit funding and set some time line for a withdrawal, some military personnel reiterate the assessment that this incursion is not "winnable".

Congress is increasingly bolstered by home town opinion and the Pentagon grows increasingly wary of a futile expenditure of personnel and material. Congress and the Pentagon, as well as the American public, know it ain't gonna work.

[MADem]

1. Well, Cabinet Member Gates over at DOD is a thinking man.

And those 22 GOP Senators whose seats are up for grabs in 08 are STARTING to feel the heat.

I tell people here, if you are represented by any of those Senators, let them know how you feel!

[pinto]

2. Yep. I think we ought to support a tide change.

[shadowknows69]

3. I'm kind of hoping congress

talks the pentagon into hauling these criminals out of our White House at gunpoint if necessary. A backroom deal like that would hopefully prevent a full military takeover. They'd just have to install President Peolsi. Bush/Cheney could be hauled away under their own MIlitary Commissions Act.

[KAT119]

4. Senate Voted yesterday-97-0 to give Bush/Cheney Blank Check- Iran War!!

http://www.chris-floyd.com/Articles/Articles/Down_in_the_Flood%3A_The_Senate%27_Blank_Check_

All Senate Dem.Pres.candidates (Biden, Clinton, Obama) voted for Traitor Joe Lieberman's Iran War Amendment--a true day of Infamy!!!

[shadowknows69]

5. Not good news. I didn't see this.

Everybody wants WWIII. WTF is going on here?

[pinto]

6. Whoa. I'm kind of hoping the two ends meet in the middle, as a reality check.

We remove our troops, wave goodbye as Bushco goes out in Jan. 2009 and we begin the work of rebuilding the fractures.