We're Still Not Allowed to Ask: "For How Long?"

From David Sirota:

Polls show 57 percent of Americans believe going to war in Iraq was not worth it. Yet, this week, almost 70 percent of lawmakers (including, pathetically, top members of the Democratic leadership) in the House of Representatives voted against a bipartisan, non-binding resolution asking the President to submit a plan to Congress explaining an exit strategy from Iraq.

Possibly more insulting than the vote itself was the fact that Republicans actually equated asking for an exit strategy to abandoning America's troops. Apparently to the GOP, continuing to have no exit strategy at all and leaving our young men and women in a violent Middle Eastern quagmire is the real way to show our troops respect.

Shouldn't we be firing these lawmakers? Imagine any other situation billed as a "cakewalk" and "it'll pay for itself in no time" and "we'll be in and out in 2-6 months" that, after persisting for more than two years, through tens of thousands of deaths, and hundreds of billions of dollars lost (to everyone but Halliburton and company), where no one is allowed to ask a simple question like "How much longer?"