Are we waiting for months to pass ... or hundreds of US GIs to die?

Suddenly, timing is everything ... both to the Republicans and the Democrats. For the Democrats, the best time to end the Iraq war is immediately ... if not yesterday. For President Bush it would be January of 2009, of course, when the clock will have run out on his presidency and the next bloke can worry about fending off Congressional pressure.

But why is it that neither the Democrats nor the Republicans will give a "when" that is measured in numbers of troops (US, UK and/or Iraqi) who must die before we can state that "enough is enough"?

Would either George W. Bush or any member of Congress be man (or woman) enough to state that we can withdraw from Iraq when 4,000 of our boys and girls have died? Or 3500? Or even 5,000 or 10,000?? Or even one more? You need only look at the numbers of casualties as they are tallied daily to feel some of what is really happening in Iraq.

I repeat ...

"Or even one more?"

Look at the faces in the picture above. Which one, Mr. President? Which one, Ms. Pelosi?

Migod, is this what politics have come to?