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To: JBTFD who wrote (78236)	9/16/2006 10:10:20 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 173976

End weenieism vote Republican

To: JBTFD who wrote (78236)	9/17/2006 1:21:22 AM
From: Hope Praytochange	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

Yet the public appears evenly split on what to do about it. Half say the United States should keep its troops in Iraq and the other half want the soldiers brought home. Half support a firm timetable for withdrawal; the other half think that’s a bad idea. So what’s a Democratic candidate for Congress to say about Iraq, beyond articulating a broad antiwar message? Should he or she present a detailed plan for extricating the country from the increasingly unpopular war? Offer support for a firm timetable for withdrawal but leave the start and end dates vague? Say that such decisions are best left to the generals on the ground? Or just keep pounding President Bush, Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld and the Republicans in Congress for starting a misbegotten war with no way out? Democratic candidates around the country are trying each of these approaches in a cacophony of frustration and sorrow, reflecting divisions in the party at the national level. If it is hard to see a Democratic plan to end the war, it’s because there isn’t one. “It’s a dog’s breakfast,” said Andrew Kohut, president of the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, which has done extensive polling on public attitudes toward the war. “The reason that Democrats aren’t talking about specific plans to end the war is because it’s hard to figure out what to say without alienating a broad swath of the electorate.”