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Tuesday, May 22, 2007 12:00 AM

Playing chicken

Tim Grieve

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  • Wednesday, May 23, 2007 12:11 PM

    Ramoncreager - See my previous post.

    See my previous post about this...

    Yes. It would be political suicide to cut the funds. The action would be painted in the worst possible terms by the press and the GOP - regardless of the general unpopularity of the war. The chaos that would ensue would be owned by the democrats and Bush would be able to wash his hands of the whole affair, blaming the democrats for "losing the war". Anyone who doubts that this would happen and be used by war boosters to defeat moderate democrats is simply naive.

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