Silvestre Reyes, who Nancy Pelosi chose over Jane Harman to head the House intelligence committee, has just told Newsweek that he wants to put 20,000 or more extra troops into Iraq to clean up the militias--an impossible task as should be clear to all.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16062351/site/newsweek/

The Reyes statements are truly amazing, but those statements--as well as the Democrats' behavior in general re Iraq--might have the good effect of making antiwar forces realize that they cannot rely on the Democrats to get us out of Iraq. In essence, the Bush administration has tried to conduct a long war without asking Americans to make sacrifices, and antiwar leaders have asked us to oppose the war without having a real antiwar movement a la the anti-Vietnam war movement. So antiwar leaders trot us out about once a year for a big march, and that is supposed to be enough. The march now planned for late January in DC was originally scheduled for MARCH.

It is time for all the Bush haters to stop satisfying themselves with Bush hate noise (I am beginning to see that this characterization has some merit) and show us just how outraged they really are by this war that both Republicans and Democrats intend to continue for the indefinite future.