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Is September the Deadline Month for Iraq?
By Lowell | May 8, 2007
Is September the key deadline month for the Iraq War? That’s what today’s Washington Post reports. According to the Post, “House Democratic leaders are coming together around legislation that would fund the war through September but would withhold more than half of those funds until July, when Bush would have to report on the Iraqi government’s progress toward benchmarks such as quelling sectarian violence, disarming militias and sharing oil revenue equitably.”
What does the progressive blogosphere think?
*Booman writes:
I like this strategy very much. It is more imaginative than anything I have come up with and anything I have noticed bandied about the internets. It should easily pass the House. In the Senate?
*TPM Muckraker says that “you’ve heard this before ” but that this time, “the Post wants you to know, the stars really are in alignment…” We’ll see.
*Atrios is highly skeptical:
The WaPo is crystallizing September as the supposed Iraq drop dead date for Bush. But it won’t be. A few more Republicans will be peeled off, but that’s it. The major Republican presidential candidates will still be telling people that if we leave Iraq the terra ists will be hanging out at their local Applebees. Bush is going to cling to his pet war until the end….It ain’t gonna magically end in September.
*Crooks and Liars comments that the “sound you hear is Republican unity on the war coming apart.”
So what do you think, is September going to mark the “beginning of the end” of the Iraq War, just the “end of the beginning,” or what?
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