Reply #3: Did this week not happen?

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Time to Take a Stand
Democrats have good reason to fear being tagged the antiwar party. But that doesn’t mean they should be afraid of bold steps.

Web-Exclusive Commentary
By Eleanor Clift
Newsweek
Updated: 3:42 p.m. ET March 31, 2006

March 31, 2006 - Democrats released their national-security plan this week. Like the proverbial talking dog, it’s not so much what it says, but that it says anything at all. Democrats have been in a defensive crouch for so long that when Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid previewed the plan at a breakfast with print reporters, he felt compelled to say that “Democrats are just as patriotic as Republicans”—as though that were in dispute.

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