Chicken-doves

Joan Vennochi notes how the anti-war sentiment among Democrats in the US House and Senate has grown with the growing struggle and casualties in Iraq. The "Bush lied" meme is really cover for this, or so it seems to those Democrats who (at some political risk) were doves all along...and voted that way. Her concluding paragraph:

In 2005, belated spine is better than no spine. But it should never be confused with real political courage, the kind that stands up to presidents when it is unpopular to do so.

Very true. But enough of Democrats. Is Bush now showing "real political courage", or is he just being stubborn?