Let’s see.  The Democrats are calling for a plan to withdraw from Iraq by the end of the year, or soon thereafter.  Our commander in Iraq has put forth a plan for just that thing.

The GOP has villified Democrats’ plan as displaying "cut and run" cowardice, being reckless and unworkable and blah blah blah.  But how is any different than the plan proposed by our top commander in Iraq?  This question was put to WH Press Secretary Tony Snow, who responded:

"Well, actually, he has one, and it — you know, again, this is not, I believe the way, at least it was reported, is you’ve got two brigades by the end of the year, September being short of the end of the year. But I may be misreading it. In any event, you’ve got to keep in mind that this is not a statement of policy. Again, Gen. Casey keeps in mind a number of scenarios. You’re talking about scenarios here … And so I would caution very strongly against everybody thinking, well, they’re going to pull two brigades out. Maybe they will, maybe they won’t. That really does depend upon a whole series of things that we cannot, at this juncture, predict. But Gen. Casey — again, I would characterize this more in terms of scenario building, and we’ll see how it proceeds."

Ah, thanks for clearing that up.