Even With Obama In Charge, Anti-War Democrats Powerless


From McClatchy News:

WASHINGTON — The anti-war crowd had waited years for this moment, when it could finally use its political muscle to end or at least sharply curtail American involvement in a war that seems endless.

Instead, Congress' most vocal anti-war activists were badly outnumbered this week when they tried to define an exit strategy for U.S. involvement in Afghanistan.

"We need a plan while we are there and a strategy for leaving," said Rep. Donna Edwards, D-Md., who last year defeated an eight-term incumbent Democrat who backed the Iraq war. "We don't have it."

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My Comment: If the Afghan war starts to go south, and Iraq implodes into sectarian violence .... the anti-war voice will increase proportionally.

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