August 1, 2003
The worm turns
Baltimore Sun: Congress beginning to wake up
"... Another Republican, Sen. Richard G. Lugar of Indiana, despite his always reasonable manner, was not going to be put off by Mr. Wolfowitz about the cost of putting the Iraq Humpty Dumpty back together again. Mr. Lugar also wanted to know why the administration wasn't being more successful in bringing in peacekeeping troops from other countries.
Members of Mr. Bush's "coalition of the willing" have been dragging their feet, and as for the coalition of the unwilling that wouldn't back his war, the reason is all too obvious. Having called the United Nations "irrelevant," the president can't expect its members who opposed the invasion to enlist in the cleanup..."
Posted by fightingdem at August 1, 2003 10:06 AM




