As the House and Senate vote to send a "dead on arrival" piece of legislation to the President which calls for a time line for an American troop pullout from Iraq (attached to the newest round of spending increases for the war effort), a new Tim Russert poll indicates the obvious, the American people no longer feel the American troops will achieve victory in the Iraq war. Only one-third of the American citizens polled indicated that victory in Iraq is achievable. Clearly even the conservative support for the administrations contentions that victory is possible is eroding. In fact, the Yes voting percentage mirrors the administrations favorables in all recent polling regarding the popularity and job performance of the administration as a whole.
In other news today, the White House has rejected an attempt by Democrats to force Condoleezza Rice, secretary of state, to testify before Congress about the Bush administration's use of intelligence to justify its invasion of Iraq, in particular the since discredited assertion that Saddam Hussein had tried to acquire uranium from Niger. The House committee on oversight and government reform voted 21-10 in favor of issuing a subpoena to Ms Rice, who has refused to testify before the committee on the grounds that she had already provided all necessary information.
The House judiciary committee on Wednesday also voted to seek a judicial order to compel testimony from Monica Goodling, a White House liaison for Albert Gonzales, attorney general, about the firing of eight federal prosecutors. Separately, the Senate judiciary committee approved, but did not issue, a subpoena for Sara Taylor, a deputy to presidential adviser Karl Rove.
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