McCain and Lieberman get protested

Big shock.

What I thought was interesting about this article was the quote from one of the protesters.

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Unlike protesters in the vein of Cindy Sheehan, Mr. Matzzie [a protester] expressed confidence that the new Democratic majorities would take sufficient action on the issue.

“We were very helpful to the Democrats getting elected,” he said. “And they know it.”

(Caucus readers have been weighing in heavily on our earlier post by Jeff Zeleny, who wrote of the letter sent today by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to President Bush, in opposition to any possible troop surge that the administration might be planning to announce next week. Republicans, like Senator Jon Kyl, of Arizona, have already raised objections to the letter, saying it’s premature to diss the president’s plan before it’s even outlined.)
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I tend to agree. I have serious doubts that the new Congress is going just going to stand around and nod like a bunch of yes-men when Bush unveils his plan to step up rather than scale down the hated conflict.

I also wanted to respond to what McCain said in one of the earlier-linked articles.

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“If we fail in Iraq, there’s somehow the belief, that I don’t quite comprehend, that we just come home and then it’s over” – in the same way U.S. troops came home from Vietnam in the mid-1970s.

The difference, McCain argued, was that “the Vietnamese didn’t want to follow us” to attack the United States itself.

He said writings by Osama bin Laden and Mullah Omar indicate that “they want to follow us home, that the next target is Saudi Arabia and the next target is the United States.”
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Well, that's a great theory, John. But how about this: If Bin Laden's still alive, and still in control of a massive force of followers that actually has the ability to come after us at home, let's let him prove it by going after Saudi Arabia first, as he apparently wants to do. Is there any reason to believe that the war to defend ourselves (or Saudi Arabia, anyway) when that happens will be as unpopular as this one is? Is there any reason to think fighting in Iraq will make it less likely that Bin Laden and Omar will follow through on their threats? Have you, finally, discovered some link between al Qaeda and Iraq?

Well, have ya?