What does congress need to do in order to get our troops out of Iraq?
Nothing.
(Hat tip: Betsy Newmark.)
If Democrats truly want to end the war, they need do only one thing: Go home. Do not meet with the president, do not work for a compromise that will keep American boys dying in Baghdad.
Go home. Take no action. Pass no spending bill whatsoever. By July, existing funds would start to run out. Yes, the White House might cannibalize money from elsewhere for a time. But within months, whatever funds remained would have to be used to fuel up the planes and ships to bring the boys home.
So what do they do instead?
They have meetings. They offer proposals. They do all kinds of things, none of which are intended to cut off funds. It's obvious they want the war to end, but they don't want to be the ones seen to have ended it.
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