I still cant figure out why us liberals constantly cry for an immediate withdrawal and defunding of the war. We would be decimated in the next election, and if you're too foolish to realize this maybe we deserve to be in the wilderness again.
Matt's post reads like a George McGovern stump speech.
As Matt said, it's a false frame. The Feingold proposal defunds the war... AFTER a six-month grace period in which the war remains funded for the sole purpose of disengaging and getting our troops home.
There's also the proposal Murtha's working on that funds the war under certain tough (pro-troop) condidtions Bush will never sign on to. Why aren't the Democrats aggressively coalescing around THAT?
Pulling out of Iraq hurts us only if we buy into the Republican spin. Alas, that's what far too many Democratic leaders are cheerfully doing.
