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I agree with everything Moore said here except these continued ultra-left assertions about how the Dems in Congress aren't doing their job on Iraq. Please, please, please, for Christ sake get it right folks and stop attacking our own people!!!! This pretty damn good new Congress has sent Bush a bill to start removing troops. HE VETOED IT!!! Again, HE vetoed it and there were not enough votes to override. Now again the House has passed a bill to start bringing troops home. The Dems in the Senate are all behind their version including a few R's. The problem is the goddamn Senate rules require 60 votes for cloture, and most of the R's won't vote for cloture thus blocking the majority. Even still, if it was passed Bush again vows to veto and there just aren't enough votes to override. You need 67 votes in the Senate to override. They aren't there!!! Now some say just cut off the funding. It's quite so simple, there are still ways for the R's to block, and while Americans want the mission to change and to draw down troops eventually getting us completely out, the idea of cutting off all funds for the troops which Bush has the right to deploy is a very different matter, at least at this juncture. Last November the voters voted for a change in direction with a smart troop drawdown and eventual full removal, not necessarily a full and outright immediate exit overnight. It's a bit more complicated than that. What do we need to do? The Dems in Congress are doing it EXACTLY RIGHT!! They are continuing to apply pressure and forcing R's to cast votes that will damage them badly in the '08 elections, and believe me that the R's are getting scared as hell. The last thing they want is another election with the war front and center. Some are starting to defect. Others will follow as we go into the fall. But no doubt that another war election is what they will get with Bush in charge. Dems, Independents, and even some thoughtful R's are pissed as all hell, so as to '08 I completely disagree with Moore. They WILL go to the polls in droves and give us a new Dem President with a larger Dem Congressional majority so that we can get the job done. For God's sake, please train the fire on Bush and R's and stop lobbing shells at our own people. They are trying, and they are doing a lot of good things. Focus your energy on electing a Dem president and more Dems to Congress so we CAN get the needed votes in Congress, end the R blockades, and start UNscrewing this country in '09.
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