Ace, I feel your exasperation. At the very least, the Repubs have a clear, unmistakable message to the American people: continue funding the troops, continue fighting, continue to try to put Iraq back together again, no withdrawal. The Repubs - right or wrong - have a plan and are acting upon it. The Dems are obviously still in a state of confusion over Iraq...after 4+ years, there is still no coherent, unanimous Democratic position about what to do about Iraq. They can't decide whether to stay or go. We all know what Bush wants, but do we know what the Dems want? What makes their incoherence even more strange is that the American people, in November 2006, told them in no uncertain terms that they want the Dems in charge of policy decisions in Iraq from now on. They've been given carte blanche by the American people to reverse the mistakes Bush has made, but for some reason they can't get their act together.
Here's Olby's take on the Dems failure to put through recent house supplementals calling for a timeline for troop withdrawal:
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