Orrin Hatch: “I will begin by saying that on Iraq, absquatulation is not a policy. Today we face a growing movement for the political…”

“I will begin by saying that on Iraq, absquatulation is not a policy. Today we face a growing movement for the political abandonment of the will to success in the biggest conflict we face in the whole 21st century. There are handfuls of people in pink wandering the hallways here, and the party in the majority claims a growing groundswell to abandon the fight in the midst of the battle. These are perilous times, and the political class of this country is divided among those who desperately want to raise the white flag, those who are fleeing to the tall grasses, and a beleaguered administration, beleaguered in part--and let us be honest at a time when generosity would be misplaced--by many of its own spectacular mistakes. I hear from constituents who are worried--very worried--about the war in Iraq. But Utahns are stalwart in character. Not all of them support the President's policy, and not all of them support me, to be sure. But I think I am being honest to suggest that the vast majority of my constituents are as worried by the prospects of a U.S. unilateral withdrawal as they are by the challenges we face in the middle of a battle whose end many of my colleagues no longer have the patience to imagine, pursue, or achieve.”