Last month, America voted to end Republican rule. We also voted to end the killing in Iraq. And now we’re finding out that, to accomplish this, we must stand behind Bush and allow the killing to continue for a little while longer.

We’re kinda in the same boat as the characters from the movie, “The Wizard of Oz”, in that we lack heart, brains and courage… and we’re desperately trying to find our way home.

Reid: Brief troop increase OK in Iraq

WASHINGTON - The Senate’s top Democrat offered qualified support Sunday for a plan to increase U.S. troops in Iraq, saying it would be acceptable as part of a broader strategy to bring combat forces home by 2008.

President Bush’s former secretary of state, however, expressed doubts any troop surge would be effective, noting U.S. forces already are overextended. “The American Army isn’t large enough to secure Baghdad,” said Colin Powell, Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman during the 1991 Gulf War.
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Incoming Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, whose party campaigned in the November congressional elections on changing course in Iraq, said he would be open only to a short-term increase.

“If the commanders on the ground said this is just for a short period of time, we’ll go along with that,” said Reid, D-Nev., citing a time frame such as two months to three months. But a period of 18 months to 24 months would be too long, he said.

“The American people will not allow this war to go on as it has. It simply is a war that will not be won militarily. It can only be won politically,” Reid said.

At least three other Democrats did not support Reid’s position on the additional troops.

Source: YAHOO! News

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