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Bloggers on Iraq: An IM Chat
Nick Gillespie debates Ed Morrissey and Judd Legum about Iraq and the 2006 election in an Associated Press IM chat.
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Nick Gillespie: here's hoping we're doing better in the war on terror than in the war in iraq.
asap: Let's look forward now to 2007 ... how will the balance of power in Congress after the election affect the future of U.S. involvement in Iraq?
Edward Morrissey: I'm assuming you mean if the Democrats control one or both chambers of Congress ...
Edward Morrissey: Given the fact that they've campaigned on Iraq, the Democrats will rightly consider that a mandate ...
Edward Morrissey: and probably try to pull funding for the Iraq deployments sometime in 2007.
Judd Legum: I think it might prompt the Bush administration to accept the recommendations of the Baker commission, which reportedly will suggest redeploying troops out of Iraq
Judd Legum: But I disagree with Ed, Dems will not pull funding for the deployments
Nick Gillespie: i think a lot of this will depend on the magnitude of the democratic victory (assuming there is one)...
Nick Gillespie: at this point, every politician in america is looking for a way out of iraq.
Nick Gillespie: i think that the dems will use iraq as leverage to either temper or reverse bush/gop domestic policy. they'll go after tax cuts or maybe even stick to their rhetoric about reducing spending.
Nick Gillespie: domestic politics always trump foreign policy, unless you're talking about something like ww2.
asap: Should the magnitude of the swing, if any, have anything to do with how Congress acts?
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