President Bush is on the defensive in the political war over Iraq, as polls and this week's Senate pullout vote show. His strategy for turning things around is patterned after Bill Clinton's 1995-96 showdown with the then-Republican Congress: shift blame to lawmakers for failing to fund the troops. Full Story »
Posted by Kaizar Campwala
While covering the widest margins of opinion on recent funding for the war, this piece largely ignores the opinions of the center.
A fairly balanced piece. I do think that when drawing a historical comparison as the author does, he needs to be extra careful to qualify the comparison by highlighting the differences between the situations. He does this, but perhaps not enough.
The WSJ tries really, really hard to blame Democrats for Bush's plan to veto funding for the troops.
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