SO it’s yes to timetables for Iraq, both the House and the Senate have now said. But don’t schedule the welcome-home parades yet. For a start, the two very different spending bills passed in the last 10 days have yet to be reconciled and President Bush has promised a veto, with a veto override quite unlikely. But that isn’t to say the votes were meaningless, judging from the last slow-motion collision of a wartime president and the antiwar voices in Congress. Historians of the Vietnam era suggest that those who look to Congress for decisive action to end the current war will be disappointed. But they say that today, just as in the 1960s and 70s, Congress both reflects and amplifies public disillusionment; its votes, however symbolic, could set political limits on the president’s options. “Congress becomes the public voice of opposition,” said Robert Dallek, the presidential historian, who has dissected the interaction of Congress with both Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard M. Nixon. “And ...
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