Reply #5: Weiner says the Dems are extending the war to use the war as an issue in 2008

[Kolesar]

...Or at least that's what I read:

We're in the midst of two sides trying to run out the clock, for their own ends. The Republicans support CheneyBush's staying-the-course plan in Iraq and aim to run out the clock until November 2008 so that it will be the next President (even better if that person is a Democrat) who will be blamed for "losing" the war. The Democrats, eager to pin "Bush's War" disaster on the Republicans, are playing run-out-the-clock by not forcing an end to the catastrophe. The Dems regard impeachment as something of an uncertain gamble as well as a grand distraction from keeping the public's focus on the endless screw-ups of CheneyBush. This could well be self-destructive thinking in the run-up to the 2008 election.

Thanks for nothing, Weiner!