You know its bad when......

---Even your own party members are fighting to make change. Ive been thinking a lot about the war lately and what a mess it is. It makes me even wonder how we got to this point. I think the blame goes far deeper than Bush though. In the Middle East, all we have to do is protect Isreal since they are such close allies to us and they are all alone over there. Hussien needed to be ousted from power too, I do believe that, but I just never thought it would be such a mess afterwards.---

2 GOP senators join revolt vs. war policy

Draft measure to narrow troop mission in Iraq

By Shailagh Murray, Washington Post | July 14, 2007

WASHINGTON -- The Republican revolt against President Bush's war strategy accelerated yesterday as two of the party's most respected voices on national security proposed legislation envisioning a major realignment of US troops in Iraq starting as early as Jan. 1.

Defying Bush even as his team fanned out to press Congress for more time, Senators John Warner, Republican of Virginia, and Richard Lugar, Republican of Indiana, unveiled a measure requiring the White House to begin drawing up plans to redeploy US forces from front-line combat to border security and counterterrorism.

But the legislation, at this point, would not force Bush to implement the plans.

The proposal fell short of Democratic demands to set a firm timetable for withdrawal, but underscored the continuing erosion of the president's position among Republicans on Capitol Hill. It could shape the debate as Congress wrestles with its position on the war