Reply #56: Because they caved horribly. They didn't even try to do Murtha's 2 month trial bill.

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They went with a bill that gives funding for essentially 9 months. They gave the Republican leadership *everything* the Republican leadership wanted. Heck they even put the minimum wage bill into a bill that Republicans can go back to their base and tell them that they were "forced" to vote for it.

Hillary and Obama tacitly supported the IWR-2007.
Obama and Hillary waited until it was safely passed to vote.
Obama and Hillary did not say one word against IWR-2007 until it had been passed and they voted.

And this is all while Bush's and Republican approval is in the toilet and Edwards is strongly speaking out against it and the majority of the nation (rather than 10% of the nation) is opposed to this war.

That is way things stand in the present day.