AL-ASAD AIR BASE, Iraq (AP) - President Bush and his national security team made a first-hand assessment of the war in Iraq and prospects for political reconciliation Monday as a showdown nears with Congress over the U.S. troop buildup.A remote air base out in the middle of nowhere? A symbolic expression of impatience? Bull droppings. It's a physical expression of cowardice.
The president secretly flew 11 hours to this air base in a remote part of Anbar province, bypassing Baghdad in a symbolic expression of impatience with political paralysis in the nation's capital.
His physically being in Iraq is only half my dream. The other half is handing him a rifle and a flak vest and then sending him into the streets outside the green zone for fifteen months, driving a Humvee on those IED-mined streets - not at some remote and safe air base, but in the center of Bagdad - so be could personally experience his vision of the democracy he has given the people of Iraq.
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