Let's See What Bill O'Reilly Has To Say About the Referenda

From his February 20 broadcast:

...we're never gonna be able to control them. So the only solution to this is to
hand over everything to the Iraqis as fast as humanly possible.

I'm thinking that means he's supporting CUUE in this one.

When you add that to Wm. F Buckley's harsh words and it looks as if the base is shifting under GW's feet. Buckley said:

"Mr. Bush has a very difficult internal problem here because to make the
kind of concession that is strategically appropriate requires a mitigation of
policies he has several times affirmed in high-flown pronouncements," Buckley
wrote. "His challenge is to persuade himself that he can submit to a historical
reality without forswearing basic commitments in foreign policy. He will
certainly face the current development as military leaders are expected to do:
They are called upon to acknowledge a tactical setback, but to insist on the
survival of strategic policies. Yes, but within their own counsels, different
plans have to be made. And the kernel here is the acknowledgment of
defeat."