Iraq was the issue which turned the Congress around

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November 8, 2006


Although I think opposition to the Iraq occupation was just cover for many republicans to abandon Bush who had become even more looney than usual throughout this campaign, all of the name-calling, and all of the nonsense about Democrats supporting terrorists was more than voters could shoulder, and drove them to undo what many had done in 2004.

But, it was the deaths of our soldiers in Iraq, and Bush's indifference to the killings, which caused many to look past his enabling republicans and seek out folks who promised to stop him and hold his administration to account for their bloody failures in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The depth and breadth of the Democratic wins is a measure of how much Americans blame Bush and the republicans for the over 2800 deaths of American soldiers in Iraq. It Bush continues to ignore the American people, and insists on continuing the occupation of Iraq - "full speed ahead" - then we will have to mobilize again to impeach him. That's what this election was mostly about. Bush ignores the mandate for change at the peril of his presidency and the further demise of his party.

We will not be pushed aside. It's time for the president, the country, and the world to recognize how much we are in earnest to end the military muckraking abroad, and to end the open-ended deployments of our solders. They've done their job. They need to be brought back home, out of the way of Iraq's civil struggle. They need to be brought back home NOW.

I am eternally grateful for the American voters who made the plight of our soldiers their own cause. I am very proud to be an American today. My country cares. I am in its debt.



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1. again, Iraq . . .

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