Dems Agree to stay in Iraq

More bad news for the GOP as they lose their only issue.....

Quietly, but unmistakably, the debate over Iraq shifted significantly last week. First came a non-binding sense of Congress amendment to the Defense Authorization Act, introduced by Joe Biden, that passed the US Senate 75-23 on Wednesday. The Biden Amendment urges support for "an Iraqi political settlement based on federalism." Next came Thursday's Democratic debate, in which Tim Russert asked the candidates if they would pledge to, if elected, have all troops out of Iraq by January of 2013. Neither Hillary Clinton nor Barack Obama nor John Edwards would do so, though all of them promised a significantly reduced troop presence. Taken in reverse order, these things mean that:

# The debate over a complete withdrawal from Iraq is over, and the doves lost.

Start read HERE. From the silence on the Left it sounds like nobody over there believes either candidate.