Stories of the Surge  A(nother) depressing week in wartime
Washington  (Page 5 of 5)  Abercrombie might be revealing more
than he intended. One question Democrats have trouble answering
is what they would do if a Democratic president was conducting
policy in Iraq. It was President Bill Clinton, after all, who
bombed Iraq multiple times during his presidency, over the
opposition of Republicans like Tom DeLay and with the support of
Democrats like Richard Gephardt. It was Walter Jones, along with
Ron Paul, Bob Barr, Tom Tancredo, and Dennis Kucinich, who
(along with 12 other representatives) sued Clinton in 1999 for
violating the 1973 War Powers Resolution. That doesn't make them
saints, but it demonstrates that the Democrats are not, at their
core, against foreign intervention.   That fact would be more
embarrassing if the debate over the surge was more than a kabuki
show. As it stands, with anti-interventionist Democrats
sidelined by both parties, the Republicans who only supported
the war because George W. B