a head of my own

Well, this article was a shocker!! Some quotes from Nebraska Senator Chuck Hagel:

A leading Republican senator and prospective presidential candidate said Sunday that the war in Iraq has destabilized the Middle East and is looking more like the Vietnam conflict from a generation ago.

Can you believe he's actually a REPUBLICAN!! And it goes on:

Senator Hagel [...] reiterated his position that the United States needs to develop a strategy to leave Iraq. Hagel scoffed at the idea that U.S. troops could be in Iraq four years from now at levels above 100,000, a contingency for which the Pentagon is preparing.

"We should start figuring out how we get out of there," Hagel said.

Hagel said "stay the course" is not a policy. "By any standard, when you analyze 2 1/2 years in Iraq ... we're not winning," he said.

[N]ow we are locked into a bogged-down problem not unsimilar, dissimilar to where we were in Vietnam," Hagel said. "The longer we stay, the more problems we're going to have."

"What I think the White House does not yet understand - and some of my colleagues - the dam has broke on this policy," Hagel said. "The longer we stay there, the more similarities (to Vietnam) are going to come together."

"I don't know where he's going to get these troops," Hagel said. "There won't be any National Guard left ... no Army Reserve left ... there is no way America is going to have 100,000 troops in Iraq, nor should it, in four years."

Hagel added: "It would bog us down, it would further destabilize the Middle East, it would give Iran more influence, it would hurt Israel, it would put our allies over there in Saudi Arabia and Jordan in a terrible position. It won't be four years. We need to be out."

WOW!! Didn't he get the memo with the White House talking points??

Clearly, hat tip to Senator Hagel for having the guts to go against the President and his policies. And all this at the same time when Bush is starting another push to rally the country together in support of a war he got us into by lying and fixing intelligence and for which Americans are growing weary, finally.

Well, clearly things are starting to look quite eery for Bush and the Republicans if they start to come out against their up-to-now race horse, the Iraq war/quagmire.