Webb Calls for Diplomacy in Iraq

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Democrats blistered President Bush's war policy Tuesday night, challenging him to redeem the nation's credibility - and his own - with an immediate shift toward a diplomatic end to the bloody conflict in Iraq.

"The president took us into this war recklessly," the Democrats' chosen messenger, Sen. Jim Webb of Virginia, said in his prepared response to Bush's State of the Union address Tuesday evening. "We are now, as a nation, held hostage to the predictable - and predicted - disarray that has followed."

Webb, a Vietnam veteran who was Navy secretary during Republican President Reagan's administration, called for a new direction.

"Not one step back from the war against international terrorism. Not a precipitous withdrawal that ignores the possibility of further chaos," said Webb. "But an immediate shift toward strong regionally based diplomacy, a policy that takes our soldiers off the streets of Iraq's cities and a formula that will in short order allow our combat forces to leave Iraq."

Bush offered no such plan in his speech, nor did he defend his proposed surge of 21,500 troops to Iraq before the most unfriendly joint session of Congress of his tenure.

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1. THIS May Be The Start...

Yet to be seen, but if we "operate" on the vision aspect of politics, having Webb who has a son in harm's way "IS" clearly brilliant stretegy! Playing the game of "one-on-one" or "mano-O-mano, who better than Jim Webb?

I'm sorry, but I seem to have missed just WHO it was who made the decision to have WEBB respond, but "whouda thunk" it? Personally, I think it's as simple as being completely appropriate. A man who actually has a son, who just got an extended stay in IRAQ replying to an Incompetent Psycho who calls himself "THE DECIDER!"

I refuse to allow the likes of this man on my TV by design. I'll wait for the reviews here.