how will the democrats change things?  What exactly is there position on war?
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They are towards leaving Iraq.  They really don't have a plan right now.  They wanted to use scare tactics against Americans, so they get the vote.  As of now, I haven't heard any plans yet.
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It is a good point that you make and might I add, infighting has hurt the troops more than any comment.  The fact that the Republicans believe it should be done only one way and the Democrats are acting like T.O. doesn't help our chances.  \n\nIf you go to war, you better be prepared to make it work.  This isn't some backyard game, you don't just quit and go home when you make a decision to go to war.\n\nAll political parties and the public should be ashamed of themselves.  This isn't what our soldiers need right now, they need a country that supports them.  We need to give them what they need to execute and make their mission successful.\n\nTeam work - we forget the concept at the highest level. - brilliant.
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jmeege,\n\nIt is easy to ask and wait for an answer that no one here has.  It would be the same if we elected a Democratic president in '08 and asked you the same question.\n\nWant to know why?  It's called strategic.\nYou don't publish what your plan is step-by-step.  That would be like playing Chess and telling your opponent what your next 5 moves are going to be (after every move!).  A Democratic president wouldn't have much to say either, nor would the entire Democratic party.  It would be the same strategy - don't publish it.  \n\nNow they might set a deadline, and that would be unfortunate.  Could you imagine if during the Battle of the Buldge in WWII, we had reporters on the battlefield reporting the high number of casualties, causing immediate alarm here in the U.S. ?  What if, as a result, Congress ended the declaration of war and pulled our troops out?  You could not even begin to fathom the significance that mistake would have cost us.  It's possible the war might not have ever turned in the Allies' favor.\n\n\nThose that don't understand war strategy, are usually the ones with very little knowledge of history.  It is wrong to assume that a WAR should be over within a specific amount of time.  It is also wrong to take a premature position and say that this war is meaningless.  Even in our lifetime, it is likely that we will never truly know how significant the impact of winning this war will have.\n\n\nFurthermore, it is foolish to assume you are in a better position by asking a question you don't have a solution to.
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Of course it should be a democrat.  And unless things change very dramatically over the next two years, it's a fair bet it WILL be a democrat.   \n\nPeople are finally starting to catch on that the Iraq war was a bad idea, and Bush screwed up by starting it.  What I want to know is what took them so long.  Everything that opponents of the war have been saying from the start turned out to be true.  And most of it was obvious from the start to anyone who payed attention in 9th grade history.\n\nAnd then there's the Foley scandal.  Sexually harassing teenage boys doesn't go over too well with a constituent base that's big on family values.  And having so Republican congressmen helping to cover it up makes the whole party look bad.\n\nOf course, those are by no means the only Republican screw-ups, but they seemed to be the too biggest factors in Tuesday's Democratic victory.  When it comes down to it, in one of the senate races (I think it was Rode Island), the Republican incumbent was voted out essentially just because he was a Republican, despite being one of the more liberal Republicans in congress and having been fairly popular in his home state.  The Democrats took over the senate with just 1/3 of the seats up for reelection.  The presidental election is still two years away, so things can change, but right now it's quite clear that America does not want another Republican.
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I hope like heck the Democrats do not win, then.  You cannot negotiate with terrorists.  It's kill or be killed with those radicals, and I really hope we don't find this out the hard way.
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They will raise our taxes and spend money on new pork-barrel projects, just like Democrats have always done.  They will cut and run from the radical terrorists and expose us all to new terrorist attacks in America.  They will amend the Second Amendment of the Constitution and try to take away our rights to own firearms.  They will permit abortion on demand under all circumstances.  Read their websites and then read between the lines.  What they avoid telling you before election time is just as important as what they advertise.\n\nI see that "dakota29575" has his eye on the stock market, which has already gone down for the last 6 consecutive days, as it appears that the Democrats may gain control of the House or the Senate, and maybe both.  The Democrats won't TRY to take the market down.  It goes down in FEAR of Democrat control, and their "Tax and spend" policy, which creates inflation.
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It has been the GOP talking point since the last election. Remember when Bush challenged the Democrats to come up with a plan for winning the war? It's like someone tearing apart an expensive timepiece and then demanding that you immediately fix the problem he created. Maybe the better idea was to not break the timepiece in the first place, and certainly not to hire the same person to break even more!\nAnyway, the strategy of ignoring democratic ideas clearly works, and the media love to repeat the mantra that the democrats don't have any solutions. Even when the Democrats held a news conference recently to map out new policy, the news media covered it little, if at all, and continued to bemoan their lack of ideas.\nDemocrats just need to insist that their ideas be heard, and continue to false statements.
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Keeping liberals out of power.  They will cut and run in the war on terror and destroy this economy with tax increases.  \n\nI am a lifetime Republican voter and am fed up with the party.  Democrats scare me a lot.
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liberals wont explain this they will jsut change the conversation to the war on IRAQ like they always do. democrats are very different from now when FDR was president... BUsh was in the same position FDR wasamerica was attacked and we retaliated
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Careful with your prediction! Many of the gains made by the Dems were from Conservative Dems such as Joe Lieberman. Even if the VA seat falls to a Dem, Joe is likely to rally other conservative Dems in support of the war against terrorism. I think this may be a much needed booster for the war... the vote indicates that we want change but by clinging to the conservative values albeit Dems, we're saying that change should not be a full scale retreat that hands over the victory to terrorists.
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The Democrats will go to an length to try to stop anything the Republicans or the President wants to do.They never have a good reason or a solution just want to sit around and whine like a bunch of school girls.
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It does take two to tango. But I am going to be very pissed at Democrats (I am one) if they pull this stunt. They have talked one way for years, and now appear poised to do the opposite? -- Or is it just another 1) GOP fear and smear job against Democrats, prompted by their recent congressional upset or 2) another historic repeat of a scenario we know so well: GOP messes things up, paints the country into a corner, then leaves the Democrats to clean up their mess?\n\nI need more information.
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Democrats cant deal with real issues. they have to revert to tactics such as the BIG LIE, distortions, smears, creating scandals, diversionary tactics , fear-mongering, class war-fare and history revision
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You must think the liberals and democrats are fools they know you can't  remove the troops immediately but I'M sure they would try to change the down road policy of Rumsfeld and try something else my own opinion is get rid of Rumsfeld and put in someone who knows the region and the people and let him try to get the different fractions together where there talking to each other and maybe it will stop some of the violence. You have to remember even if they win some seats It probably will not control the congress or senate so it will probably be status quo and still Rumsfeld policy.
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You're correct for the most part. In addtion, he has taken the right stance on some issues such as not being for gay marriage, ect. \n\nNow the liberals are really dumb, and now these democrats are setting our country on the way to a bad economy with that stupid, moronic minimum wage increase, when the minimum wage should be abolished, not increased. \n\nThis is just the beginning of a reign of tyranny, and I predict that we're going to be destroyed, sadly.\n\nThe terrorists are now inspired, and if we get attacked, the Democrats won't have a clue on how to respond. It's looking really bad.
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As for Iraq, Pelosi and the Democrats have yet to explicitly outline their plan for U.S. involvement in the region, but unlike many of her counterparts, Pelosi voted against authorizing the war.\n\nAnd what about the persnickety allegation that she will skipper tax hikes through the House? Sure she will, said the shoo-in speaker.\n\n"We will revisit the tax cuts at the high end in order to give tax cuts to the middle class, (We will redistribute the wealth.)\n" she said.
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no, it's just that liberals have so much in their party to deal with, by that i mean sub-divided special interest groups, and have no focus. it is obvious when you ask them about a plan to get out of iraq. while the president says" stay the course" over and over the democrats say " we need to change course". over and over with no clear alternative to bush. multiply this by 1000 and " thar ye gowe". lack of focus.