Can You Help Me Understand Something [View All]

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Most of the posters here seem to be very anti-war. But the Democratic politicians in Washington seem to be taking a different course than their constituents. Example:

For most in the peace movement an August 2008 deadline for withdrawal is already way too slow. Why the delay? On November 17, 2005 Rep. Jack Murtha called for redeployment within six months. Here we are sixteen months later and the Democratic leadership is talking about redeployment in seventeen months! Six months has turned into 33 months ­ and in fact the August deadline is illusory. How many lives ­ U.S. and Iraqi ­ will have been lost in this quagmire over this time period?

But, that is not the worst of it. As Rep. Maxine Waters, the Chair of the Out of Iraq Caucus point out, a few weeks ago the Congress passed a non-binding resolution against the so-called "surge" but this appropriation will actually pay for the surge ­ which has grown since their vote by more than 8,200 troops. Indeed, the Democrats are poised to give Bush up to $20 billion more than he asked for!

This seems conflicting.

The Democrats with few exceptions seem to have capitulated all along the way with the Bush Agenda. As a lifelong Democrat this causes me tremendous dissonance and confusion.