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The Democrats are in a difficult position. Its not a matter of both looking weak to their anti-war supporters and being identified as "anti_troops" or "weak on terror" by the other side.
Cutting off funding is bad policy....it would put the 140,00+ troops currently in Iraq at risk and those troops should not become political fodder any more than they are.
The Democrat approach will be again to put conditions on the funding in the appropriation bill and the supplemental bill (the bill above was just the authorization bill), both of which they plan to withhold until after the first of the year (2008) in order to continue to pressure more moderate Republicansto support some conditions on a time frame tied to political progress by the Iraqi. ...I know, same old story, but I still havent heard a better alternative than can override a veto by Bush.
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