Liberal columnist: Daschle's Iraq war comments "not helpful"

Here's what uber-liberal Newsweek columnist Eleanor Clift had to say about Senator Daschle's divisive comments on the eve of the Iraq war in a piece dated March 21, 2003:

Daschle has the skills of a good partisan leader, but this time he overstepped. Once it became clear Bush was taking the country to war, anything said that is not supportive of the commander in chief is by definition not helpful politically. Republican Sen. George Allen called Daschle’s words “disgusting.” Few Democrats publicly backed Daschle, and North Carolina Sen. John Edwards, who is running for president, issued a statement that Bush wasn’t to blame for the war; it’s Saddam Hussein’s fault. “Congress has a role and that is to shut the hell up,” says Bob Boorstin, director of World View Initiative, which studies American attitudes toward U.S. foreign policy. “Anyone who tries to say anything that’s critical will be drawn and quartered.”