House Democratic leaders are considering a straightforward approach to next week's Iraq war debate

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February 8, 2007

WASHINGTON (AP) -- House Democratic leaders are considering a straightforward approach to next week's Iraq war debate, planning a short and simple measure opposing President Bush's decision to send more forces into combat.

The bare-bones approach is intended to persuade Republicans to break ranks with the GOP and express their frustration with a war without turning off Democrats who want to end the war by cutting money to pay for it.

Republican leaders, who are seeking their own alternative measure that would set benchmarks for the Iraqi government, said they anticipate some GOP defections to the nonbinding Democratic resolution.

Such a measure would indicate House leaders were moving away from a version that Senate Republicans blocked on Monday.

House Democrats again raised the prospect of trying to cut off money for the war.

"The president has left the Congress few alternatives other than to use the power of (the) purse spelled out in Article I, Section 9 of the U.S. Constitution to curtail U.S. military operations in Iraq," California Democratic Reps. Lynn Woolsey and Barbara Lee said on behalf of 71 members of the progressive congressional caucus.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/02/08/house.iraq.ap/index.html

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1. Fits right into what Dubya just said....

..."We need intelligent looking-forwardship on our side!"

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2. Dem's. just say no to more war. It seems like the appropriate

response to drugs in america-the just say no slogan. Well, to this Republic administration it seems as if war is their choice of drug, and they must just say no.