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the democrats are playing the funding bill wrong. they're trying to attach a timetable for the withdrawal of troops. instead they should attach an admission of error. undermine the president's projected infallibility. that's a much bigger win than bringing the troops home. the text could be something like this: by signing this bill that funds the iraq war and the separate war on terror the president of the united states acknowledges with the benefit of hindsight that maybe, just maybe, starting them under the best of intentions or otherwise (ie false pretenses) was pretty fucking stupid.