Cornyn's Brilliance on Iraq

by: Todd Hill

Sun Aug 26, 2007 at 04:26 PM CDT

This morning, Cornyn had this to say on This Week with George Stephanopoulos:

"Senator Warner is a great patriot and a student of history, and he's clearly sending a signal to the Iraqis that our patience is not unlimited, and that's correct," said Cornyn, a fellow member of Senate Armed Services Committee. "But I don't think it's in our best interest to put so much pressure on the new Iraqi government that it absolutely collapses."

"We don't want to allow that to happen, because it would make us less safe here at home," he said.

Not in our best interests to put pressure on the Iraqi government?  They are in RECESS for the month of August while our brave men and women in uniform slog through 120 degree heat in desert terrain.  They are doing it because men like Cornyn rubberstamped a neocon debacle of the first order out of Party loyalty and not American national security interests.  His rubberstamp has made our country more vulnerable and less safe in a post 9/11 world. 

I would suggest that instead of half-hearted compliments towards Senator John Warner that Cornyn become a quick study of exactly why an elder statesman of Warner's caliber has come full circle on his once staunch support for a war in ancient Mesopotamia.  Warner, like many Democrats have already, has seen the writing on the wall.