"I listened carefully to the President's remarks at a news conference that he held earlier today. I heard nothing in his discussion of the issue that would persuade me that further U.S. military involvement in the area is necessary. In fact, his remarks have persuaded me more profoundly that we should leave and leave soon.
Dates certain, Mr. President, are not the criteria here. What is the criteria and what should be the criteria is our immediate, orderly withdrawal from Somalia. And if we do not do that and other Americans die, other Americans are wounded, other Americans are captured because we stay too long--longer than necessary--then I would say that the responsibilities for that lie with the Congress of the United States who did not exercise their authority under the Constitution of the United States and mandate that they be brought home quickly and safely as possible." - Sen. John McCain - October 19,1993
On President Clinton's Somalia disaster which ultimately cost Les Aspen his job as Sec Def.
Russ Feingold was in complete agreement with McCain.
Feingold's position today is the same.
McCain's?
Waffle waffle...
Congress not only can, but WILL end the Bush disaster in Iraq, one way or another... and if Bush "decides" to make it a constitutional crisis, he will lose; possibly his job.
CSPAN viewership numbers will be increasing in the coming few months, I predict.
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