I’ve criticized Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson several times in the past two years, so it should be no surprise when I disagree with him.
Ironically, though, I do agree with him on some points. I think the Iraq War has been a badly executed mistake from the beginning.
What I don’t agree with, though, is inane columns complaining about the fact that the President is taking a vacation:
[I]t’s unbelievable that the Iraqi parliament is taking a month-long vacation, that Congress has left for its traditional August recess and that George W. Bush is heading off to Kennebunkport and then to Texas. What you failed to take into account is that none of this really matters, because the war in Iraq is on autopilot.
While I can’t speak for the Iraqi Parliment, I would think that even Eugene Robinson would recognize that the President of the United States is never really “on vacation.” Disagree with policy all you want, and I’ll probably join you, but these stupid comments every August about Presidential “vacations” are really getting tedious.
