A war of words yields heavy casualties when the subject is war itself. In Washington, the White House charged Democrats with trying to win elections by losing a war, and Democrats fired back on a President sunk in a "state of denial." Dick Cheney accused Senate majority leader Harry Reid of ignorance and "defeatism." "I'm not going to get into a name-calling match with somebody who has a 9% approval rating," Reid replied.
But behind the congressional vote on an Iraq spending bill that includes withdrawal dates--and the inevitable Bush veto of that bill--arose a deeper debate about truth and its...
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