Well said Oly...but I still believe Bush's threats had a lot to do... (Dub)
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Date: 2008-05-08, 10:20PM PDT
...with the actions of congress over the past year, and most certainly over the past four years. Consider this, democrats were virtually handcuffed up until last November. Whatever measure's they took to end the war were summarily dismissed by the white house with the threat of veto (as Poncho pointed out) and the republican controlled house and Senate were more than happy to override any and every vote to stop funding the war. Then comes November and the promise of democrats finally making good on promises to end the conflict. The problem is that Bush and the majority republicans have worked diligently to entrench our military in Iraq and the middle east, so much so that an immediate withdrawl is not only near impossible, it's obviously foolhardy.
I disagree that democrats were equally to blame for this war on the grounds that the white house, backed by a majority republican congress, built the conflict in Iraq from it's infancy to it's crux to where we are now. Bush and his neocons did their work well. They bulldogged and badgered their way through this from beginning to end. And you can't call it 'complicity' when your hand is being forced under duress.
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