Stay The Course? Part II

Well ... What's happened over the last year?

The Democrats won slim majorities in the house and senate.

- 1,077 more Americans have died. Tens of thousands more have been wounded.
- The Iraqi death toll has gone from an estimated 655,000 to 1.2 million.
- The cost of the war has risen from over one hundred thousand dollars per minute to almost two hundred thousand dollars per minute.

As Walter Shario wrote in Salon recently:

Sep 26, 2007 | It is time to face the blunt truth: This Congress, despite its nominal Democratic majorities, is not going to hasten the end of the Iraq war. This is not defeatism on the home front nor is it a rant against the accommodationist tactics of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. Rather, this inescapable conclusion is based on the coin of the realm on Capitol Hill -- the stark arithmetic of head counts.

And this depressing item:

9/27/07 HANOVER, N.H. — The leading Democratic White House hopefuls conceded Wednesday night they cannot guarantee to pull all U.S. combat troops from Iraq by the end of the next presidential term in 2013.

Well now what are we going to do?