Divisions over Iraq

We have talked extensively about divisions in the Democratic Party over Iraq. I am certainly divided from the DC Democrats firmly believing we should start exiting now and complete it as fast as possible. There are those who say the country will descend into chaos if we leave. My answer to that is it has already with us there. The US is too much of the problem to ever be part of the solution. The DC Democrats like Joe Biden and and Hillary Clinton are unable to admit they were wrong and it's time for a mid-course correction. So yes, we are divided, but the Bull Moose reminds us they are just as divided on the other side.

However, it is not even clear that the Bush Administration is united on its war policy. Rumsfeld and the Pentagon often appear at odds with the White House over the drawing down of troops and whether this can even be called a war. Clearly, Rumsfeld has never been enthusiastic about nation-building which apparently led to his disastrous decision to go to war without a sufficient number of troops.

Now, the division between the White House and the Pentagon is even playing out in the editorials of the two flagship conservative publications - the Weekly Standard and the National Review.

So, while the Democrats are divided between the DLC Democrats and the real Democrats on the right they are divided between the White House and the Pentagon. Moose leaves out a few other division as well. The "old right", who were some of the first to oppose the Iraq war. We see their commentaries in The American Conservative and at LewRockwell.com. There is yet another group who supported the war but now think that Rumsfeld and the administration fucked it up so bad that it's time to get while the getting is good.

So if Divided you Fall who is going to fall first?