"The political problem of the Bush administration is grave, possibly beyond the point of rescue," William F. Buckley writes in his latest column. "The opinion polls are savagely decisive on the Iraq question." I'm afraid that rather than no WMD, no connection to 9/11, no nukes, or no more Saddam, rather than thousands of Americans killed or maimed for a delusion, hundreds of billions of dollars down a rathole, or tens of thousands of Iraqis killed in an unnecessary war, the argument that is going to sway the party hacks who have stood by President Bush is the "savagely decisive" opinion polls. Hell hath no fury like a partisan threatened with the loss of billet.

At this point in time, I'm still not completely on board with the war but I do understand why GW and others think that we need to be there and why they have been ever vigilant with regard to maintaining a force that will help in our success there. For his principles and perseverance, I have to give Bush a ton of credit. He clearly believes that he is right and that he’s taking the correct path regardless of polls or the fact that he’s getting hammered politically by the Party of Defeat. He alone had the gonads to take a road that was politically dangerous and I’d love to see him have success and prove many wrong.