Funding the Occupation

Try to control your amazement.

The Democrats took the troop withdrawal timetable caveat out of the Iraq funding bill. It now has "benchmarks."

Feingold won't support it. As if anybody in Washington gives a fig.

"There has been a lot of tough talk from members of Congress about wanting to end this war, but it looks like the desire for political comfort won out over real action. Congress should have stood strong, acknowledged the will of the American people, and insisted on a bill requiring a real change of course in Iraq.”