Baird goes back to iraq..

[Waterbuffalo]

http://www.columbian.com/news/localNews/2007/12/12132007_Latest-Iraq-trip-reinforces-Bairds-support-for-surge.cfm

[Chief]

Asked whether he felt vindicated, Baird said he wouldn't put it that way.

"It's tenuous, so any vindication is not really on my mind," he said. "It's an opportunity for continued progress, and that's good news."


Sure, but you can bet the rabid Left here in town will be on him like a starving dog after a hot sausage...

Again.

[Waterbuffalo]

Well if Baird wants to really have a lousy time in congress he should keep taking homage trips to Iraq and come back to piss off his leftist wing nutters..

[Chief]

That's the point WB....those are the people who have been electing him all along, so his time remaining in Congress may well be limited.

[Waterbuffalo]

Brian is one of the few democrats I can vote for with a decent conscience. Can't say that with most politicians..

On re-edit: There is nothing worse IMHO than a political suck-up. I can't stand to have to vote for those type of politicians..

[Chief]

U.S. Rep. Brian Baird, criticized after breaking ranks with his Democratic colleagues last summer over the war, says his most recent trip to Iraq confirms his view that the Bush administration's military surge is working. He thinks drawing down U.S. troops too rapidly would be "a profound mistake."

Baird, a Vancouver Democrat, traveled to Iraq with four other members of Congress from Nov. 30 to Dec. 4. It was his third trip to Iraq in the past seven months.

**SCHNIPP**

That is hardly being a "suck up" in my book. I've not been to Iraq, and I think I would respect and consider anyone's opinion about it who has.

[Waterbuffalo]

Chief, I was speaking of some politicians on the political suck-up. Was not saying Brian is or was. Sucking up to a political base for favors and some other things.. I hope you get the picture more clearly..