Bush has no better friends than the spineless Democratic congressional leadership and the party's leading presidential candidates when it comes to his failing Iraq policy.

Those Democrats seem to have forgotten that the American people want U.S. troops out of Iraq, especially since Bush still cannot give a credible reason for attacking Iraq after nearly five years of war.

Last week at a debate in Hanover, N.H., the leading Democratic presidential candidates sang from the same songbook: Sens. Hillary Clinton of New York, and Barack Obama of Illinois and former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards refused to promise to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq by 2013, at the end of the first term of their hypothetical presidencies. Can you believe it?

When the question was put to Clinton, she reverted to her usual cautious equivocation, saying: "It is very difficult to know what we're going to be inheriting."

Obama dodged, too: "I think it would be irresponsible" to say what he would do as president.

Edwards, on whom hopes were riding to show some independence, replied to the question: "I cannot make that commitment."
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So what are the leading Democratic White House hopefuls offering? It seems nothing but more war. So where do the voters go who are sick of the Iraqi debacle?

Richardson says it. Kucinich says it. GOP Libertarian Ron Paul says it. They are all right.

When asked: What if there is a bloodbath? The answer is: There is NOW a bloodbath.

When asked: What if there is a civil war? The answer is: There is NOW a civil war.

U.S. and Blackwater's presence in Iraq has major imipacts on the region -- all negative:

*random deaths and absence of services, all attributable to U.S. presence
*no control over Blackwater violence, no oversight, no removal of mercenaries who kill people for no reason
*increase in the number of "al qeida" and "insurgent" forces -- people who were previously neutral are now forced to take sides with the insurgency to protect their own lives and their families
*horrific death tolls that impact every family in Iraq
*mass exile, particularly of the upper and middle class -- who would stay in Iraq if they had another choice; many who can't afford another choice live in squalid refugee camps

Every day the U.S. remains in Iraq, we breed more terrorists, more death, more angry and wounded families.

We are NOT SAVING THE DAY!

All the Democratic party candidates want to end our occupation of Iraq.  The number of troops left behind is less important than the fact that whoever the Democratic Party candidate is, this time,  major combat operations will finally be over.  That is good news and a major difference between the Democratic Party and the Republicans.