BUYING TIMEHere’s a point I haven’t seen made adequately: the real targets of this slipping “deadline” for a crucial policy shift in Iraq (“we’ll know by summer,” “we’ll know by September,” and now “we’ll know by April”) aren’t the anti-war Democrats, but the Republicans. They are the people Bush needs to keep on board into next year, and they are the people facing electoral Armageddon in 2008.