Senator Smith must be running for reelection

He's certainly running from Bush and the Iraq War.
Smith says Iraq war may be 'criminal'

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Republican Sen. Gordon Smith, who voted in favor of the Iraq war and has supported it ever since, now says the current U.S. war effort is "absurd" and "may even be criminal."


In a major speech on the Senate floor, the Oregon senator called for changes in U.S. policy that could include rapid pullouts of U.S. troops from Iraq. He said he would have never voted for the conflict if he had known the intelligence that President Bush gave the American people was inaccurate.


Citing the hundreds of billions of dollars spent and the nearly 3,000 American deaths, Smith said: "I for one am at the end of my rope when it comes to supporting a policy that has our soldiers patrolling the same streets in the same way, being blown up by the same bombs day after day. That is absurd. It may even be criminal. I cannot support that anymore."


Smith added: "So either we clear and hold and build, or let's go home."

Nice try Gordon but it would have seemed a little more sincere if you had said this prior to the November elections.