Another GOP Senator breaks with Bush on Iraq

New Mexico's Republican Senator, Pete Domenici, publicly broke with George Bush over Iraq today. He wants a new strategy immediately. Like Dick Lugar who broke with Bush last week, Domenici is one of the Republican old-timers:

U.S. Senator Pete Domenici Thursday joined a growing chorus of Republicans who are calling for a change in course in U.S. military strategy in Iraq sooner rather than later.

The New Mexico Republican says he supports a bipartisan Senate bill that would create conditions that could allow for a drawdown of U.S. combat forces in Iraq by next March.

Domenici says he does not want to wait until September, when military commanders are to give an assessment. He says things are getting worse, not better, in Iraq.

Bush wants to push back the September time-frame. He'll never make the right decisions about Iraq. Never has, never will. Now, even Republicans are saying enough.

Just yesterday, Bush was playing politics with the Iraq war again according to The Hill:

President Bush Wednesday used his Independence Day speech to take a thinly veiled swipe at Democratic leaders, saying withdrawing troops from Iraq based on politics “would not be in our national interest.”

That's an interesting spin because Democrats have been trying to force a new policy, while Bush continues to engage in politics. That's been the whole strategy of the Bush administration for year. Politics over policy. But, the GOPers on the Hill are suffering the political consequences so, increasingly, Bush's Iraq problem is with members of his own party.