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ace....the political realities as I see it is that there is no way the Dems can get a veto=proof majority for a new plan. There are not enough Repubs who will abandon Bush completely....there may be enough who will support benchmarks in order to allow the Bush surge to continue for a few more months. If the surge continues to fail by later summer, it gives the Dems time to coalesce around one plan and the Repubs the political cover they will need to support an alternative to more of the same.
There are no good alternatives. We should be looking for the least damaging to the US, our troops, the goverment of Iraq and the Iraqi people.
Poliitics is, and has always been, the art of compromise and consensus buidling. But it requires real leaders who wont act as petulant children stubbornly crying my way or no way, something lacking particularly in the WH, but in Congress as well.
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