Conservatives pile on Bush

Politically, this is embarrassing to the President and it's indicative of how bad things really are right now when the likes of Bill O'Reilly, Newt Gingrich and Patrick Buchanan start to agitate for the withdrawal of our troops from Iraq.

O'Reilly:

Bill O'Reilly, the Fox News commentator who had been one of the most vocal supporters of the war, warned that the situation in Iraq might cost Mr. Bush re-election if he did not deal with it promptly. Mr. O'Reilly compared the Iraqis to the South Vietnamese in their lack of support for the United States.

"If these people won't help us, we need to get out in an orderly matter," Mr. O'Reilly said on his show Monday evening, repeating the sentiment again on Tuesday.

Newt:

Newt Gingrich, the Georgia Republican and former House speaker, also said he was concerned that Iraq could hurt the administration unless it made a forceful case to stay there. "The administration has to win the argument that this is an unavoidable fight," Mr. Singer's said. "This is painful and this is difficult, but we have no choice."

Buchanan:

"We have gotten ourselves bogged down in what is clearly a quagmire," Mr. Buchanan said in an interview. In a column published on Wednesday, he wrote, "What Fallujah and the Shiite attacks Sunday tell us is that failure is now an option."