GOP Senator Joins Call for Pullout -- Says Situation in Iraq is 'Absurd,' Perhaps Even 'Criminal'

All we have heard from pundits, as we have waited for the ISG Report to be made public in its entirety is that the Dems were hiding behind it, waiting for a cover.

Seems to us that certain Republicans are the ones who are now using it as a cover to say what should have been said a long time ago, by a member of the majority party.

GOP Senator Joins Call for Pullout -- Says Situation in Iraq is 'Absurd,' Perhaps Even 'Criminal':

NEW YORK: As the national debate over Iraq, in the media and in Washington, continues in the wake of the Iraq Study Group report, a Republican U.S. Senator from Oregon has joined the fray in an unexpected way.

In a major speech in Congress on Thursday night, Sen. Gordon Smith called the current U.S. war effort 'absurd,' perhaps even 'criminal' and called for rapid pullouts. He added that he would have never voted for the conflict if he had reason to believe the intelligence the president gave the American people was inaccurate.