Is the war over? Norman Solomon v. Frank Rich

Frank Rich's New York Times column, "Someone Tell the President the War is Over," got a lot of attention this week, and made the rounds on e-mail and blogs. Rich concludes:

Thus the president's claim on Thursday that "no decision has been made yet" about withdrawing troops from Iraq can be taken exactly as seriously as the vice president's preceding fantasy that the insurgency is in its "last throes." The country has already made the decision for Mr. Bush. We're outta there. Now comes the hard task of identifying the leaders who can pick up the pieces of the fiasco that has made us more vulnerable, not less, to the terrorists who struck us four years ago next month.

Now, longtime activist and writer Norman Solomon responds, with "Someone Tell Frank Rich the War Isn't Over." AlterNet link. Says Solomon:

We're not "outta there" -- until an antiwar movement in the United States can grow strong enough to make the demand stick. And we're not there yet. Not by a long shot.