Lynn C. Woolsey: “one cannot doubt that the American objective in Iraq has failed. Those are not my words. They were written last week by…”

“one cannot doubt that the American objective in Iraq has failed. Those are not my words. They were written last week by William F. Buckley, the godfather of modern American conservatism. In a column entitled, It Did Not Work, Mr. Buckley urges an acknowledgment of defeat in Iraq. If President Bush has lost William F. Buckley, then his Iraq policy is in a heap of trouble. By the way, I am eager to see if Mr. Buckley is labeled a treasonous coward, as my friend and colleague Mr. Murtha was when he made similar points a few months ago. {time} 2015 Who could blame Mr. Buckley, or anyone else with a pulse, for that matter, at arriving at this conclusion? While we were away for our district work period, the bombing of a Shiite shrine ignited the most gruesome carnage that Iraq has ever seen since the war began nearly 3 years ago. The Washington Post reported on its front page this morning that a staggering 1,300 people died in last week's sectarian violence. ``Hundreds of unclaimed dead lay at the morgue at midday Monday,'' The Post reported, ``blood-caked men who had been shot, knifed, garroted or apparently suffocated by the plastic bags still over their heads. Many of the bodies were sprawled with their hands still bound.'' Is this what ``freedom on the march'' looks like, Mr. Speaker? But we should not be surprised. It is not as if no one saw this coming.…”