The entire government has failed us on Iraq - Countdown with Keith Olbermann - MSNBC.com

Few men or women elected in our history—whether executive or legislative, state or national—have been sent into office with a mandate more obvious, nor instructions more
clear:

Get us out of Iraq.

Yet after six months of preparation and execution—half a year gathering the
strands of public support; translating into action, the collective will
of the nearly 70 percent of Americans who reject this War of Lies, the
Democrats have managed only this:

• The Democratic leadership has surrendered to a president—if not the worst
  president, then easily the most selfish, in our history—who happily
  blackmails his own people, and uses his own military personnel as
  hostages to his asinine demand, that the Democrats “give the troops
  their money”;
• The Democratic leadership has agreed to finance the deaths of Americans in a war that has only reduced the security of Americans;
• The Democratic leadership has given Mr. Bush all that he wanted, with the
  only caveat being, not merely meaningless symbolism about benchmarks
  for the Iraqi government, but optional meaningless symbolism about
  benchmarks for the Iraqi government.
• The Democratic leadership has, in sum, claimed a compromise with the
  Administration, in which the only things truly compromised, are the
  trust of the voters, the ethics of the Democrats, and the lives of our
  brave, and doomed, friends, and family, in Iraq.

Keith Olbermann has once again hit the nail on the head. We've actually been betrayed by our Congressional delegation. They say that they have to compromise and let the Bush and company destroy themselves, thereby assuring that 2008 will be a Democratic Election Year.

At what cost? How many more of the men and women in our military -- and their wives and husbands, sons and daughters, mothers and fathers, will be sacrificed for a political end?

We can't wait any more. We need to bring our soldiers home from Iraq. It must stop. Now.