Turning Point On the War?

I stole the heading today from this column at Editor and Publisher. Editor Greg Mitchell notes that the 'L' word is cropping up in editorials and that's for lie as in Bush, not liberal.

He points out one especially strong condemnation that appeared in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. The editorial and the column end with these words.

"Perhaps all presidents' remarks in military graveyards are by nature self-serving. But few have been so callow as the president's using the deaths of U.S. troops in his unjustified war as justification for its continuance."

At the close of the editorial online, the paper polled readers, asking if they thought it was "time to begin the careful but quick withdrawal of American forces from Iraq?" These highly unscientific surveys usually should be ignored. But the result in this case, from over 2,600 votes, was so one-sided it deserves mention: Nearly 92% called for the beginning of a pullout.

Nice that the public is finally waking up to the folly of the war, unfortunately it may be too late for a quick exit. You can't just leap out of quicksand. Once you're in up to your neck, you have to pull yourself out inch by inch.