Voinovich getting it from both sides

Ohio's senior senator, George Voinovich, is getting it from both the left and the right on the subject of Iraq.

Which, we suppose, is only to be expected when you write a letter to the president one week suggesting maybe it is time to bring the troops home and, the next week, vote against allowing a troop withdrawal plan to go forward.


Progress Ohio and American Against Escalation in Iraq have been thumping Voinovich regularly from the left for weeks, hoping to push him completely over the edge and into the get-out-now camp.


Now it's the right's turn.


MoveAmerciaForward.org, a California-based group that support the Bush administration's war policies, is planning to launch nationwide caravan to drum up support for the war that will reach Cincinnati on Sept. 12 - about the time Gen. David Petraeus is expected to deliver his Iraq progress report.


They're hoping to put pressure on Voinovich to stick with Bush and the troop surge in Iraq.


One of the group's leaders is a retired Air Force colonel, Buzz Patterson, author of a book which argues that liberals are undermining the war on terror and the former White House military aide who carried the "nuclear football" when Bill Clinton was president.