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Originally Posted by dc_dux
The Democrats in Congress cannot do it alone.
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Not true. They could do it alone, if they had a unified stance on troop withdrawal. If enough Dems could agree to put a timeline for withdrawal in the legislation, they would have enough votes to override Bush's veto. That they don't, says to me that they don't actually want to leave Iraq...which is consistent with, for example, the unabated construction of the World's Largest American Embassy (in the Green zone) as well as hundreds of millions in ongoing funding for military bases throughout Iraq.
The Dems are between a rock and a hard place: They have the certainty of a Bush veto if they ever demand a specific date for withdrawal, and they have an increasingly vocal constituency demanding the US immediately get out of Iraq. I also think the Dems have a third problem: they haven't yet told their constituency, for obvious reasons, that the US in fact has no plans to leave Iraq for a long, long time. This dirty little secret could have dire consequences for a Democratically controlled, anti-war Congress.