“…if we don-t keep our promise, we may find ourselves the minority again.” -Democratic party chairman Howard Dean

I’ve noticed that many commentators on progressive sites have taken up the position that, since Democrats haven’t been able to bring an end to the Iraq war, they are just as bad as the Republicans. Truth is, the Democrat majority can be described as tenuous at best. And, as Dean puts it, “We have to face the reality that Republicans in Congress are standing with President Bush as he stubbornly wields his veto pen.” This point needs to be pushed, and pushed HARD from here on out. We not only need a Democrat President, we need to strengthen our majority also, if we want to return our country to it’s former state of global admiration and respect.

Dean urges Democrats to end war in Iraq

Party chairman notes little progress to stop military involvement
Associated Press

Howard Brush Dean III

WASHINGTON - The high hurdles faced by congressional Democrats in their efforts to end the Iraq war make electing a Democratic president in 2008 the best way to finish the conflict, Democratic party chairman Howard Dean said Saturday.
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“The American people hired Democrats last November to ensure that we end this war,” Dean said during the weekly Democratic radio address. “So let me be clear, we know that if we don-t keep our promise, we may find ourselves the minority again.”

Dean put the blame for the lack of progress squarely on the White House and congressional Republicans for blocking his party’s attempt at tying war funding to deadlines for troop withdrawals.

“We have to face the reality that Republicans in Congress are standing with President Bush as he stubbornly wields his veto pen,” Dean charged. In response, he proposed that the “one way to truly ensure we end this war” was to elect a Democrat as president in 2008.

Full article at MSNBC.com