It's like LC Kilgore said, "Someday this war's gonna end..."

At some point, there will be enough votes. Probably now September, when "the surge" proves ineffective. That seems to be the date many have cited. And Bush will then say we need until January, and at that point there will probably be more ship-jumping, with enough votes to impose a timetable and stop payment on this Presidential blank check.

So now, what this last vote has done is turn the tables: it's now Congress waiting out Bush's surge, instead of Bush waiting out Congress.

How many more deaths in the next four months?