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Originally Posted by powerclown
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.
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Powerclown...I agree that the Democrats have a bigger tent then the Republicans and encourage debate among themselves.
But you continue to ignore the fact that 219 (out of 238) Dems in the House and all 51 Dems in the Senate signed on to a bill that was sent to the President...with a plan that is as equally, if nor more coherent than "surge and staty the course" plan that has shown NO measurable evidence of success in the last 3 years.
A majority of the House and Senate and an even greater majority of the American people support a phased redeployment plan (not to mention the majority of the Iraq parliament and the Iraqi people), but the current political enviroment makes that impossible.
Politics, indeed, works in funny (or tragic) ways.