Reid: Anti-war fight to continue

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid pledged on Thursday to continue trying to end the Iraq war even though he lacks the votes to force a troop withdrawal. The Senate was on track to wrap up its first round of debate on the war this year with little fanfare. After two days of discussion, Republicans refused to continue. As a result, Democrats were forced to shelve proposals by Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wis., that would have cut off money for combat and demanded a new strategy for defeating al-Qaida.[?]

[First the war was unwinnable - already lost as a matter of fact - when that turned around it no longer mattered: we were stuck in a civil war and had to get out - then the sectarian strife diminished to nearly nothing, so it no longer mattered: it was a failure anyway because the political benchmarks weren't happening - now two of three of those have been done, with the 3rd pending, so they no longer matter: it's now the cost of the war that's unacceptable - we need to get out now.
IGNORING that the 9B$/month cost of the war pales in comparison to the quarter Trillion in new spending being proposed by either democratic candidate, and contrary to Obama's 'plan' to leave Iraq and return if al-Qaida does {?!?} - IF money's {now} the issue, how smart do you have to be to realize that the most cost effective option at this point in time is to stay until victory is achieved and Iraq can stand on its own?
I.E., these folks are so vested in our failure in Iraq they're now incapable of thinking rationally on the subject - and how dangerous is that? In a presidential candidate?? ]

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1153ap_us_iraq.html