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Democrats really hurt themselves with the war funding bill. Republicans may just be rubberstamping the Administration's policy on Iraq, but the difference with the Democrats is they appear to put up a bit of whining but then when told more sternly they went ahead and did the stamping too. It really hurt their credibility on the war as a whole. Now of course many individual Dems are not in that group, but if Democrats want to improve their margins in the Congress, they have a year to show themselves to be fighters on these issues. If they fight tooth and nail to stop the war and Bush just won't quit, then that is what it is, but if they lay down and accept Bush's agenda, then what's the point?
I hope for the country's sake that the Dems learn from this lesson and correct themselves before the next election.
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