The "breathing room" for a political solution in Iraq that the Ponies!!! crowd believes the surge will provide will not happen. Nothing in Iraq will change while we occupy their country.

Democrats, seeing how their strategy of fighting the White House and the Republicans on the field of "funding the troops" only resulted in another blank check, should perhaps start talking about Iraq as an occupation.

In the last Democratic debate, the word "Iraq" was spoken 40 times. The word "occupation"? Once. (Kucinich.)

Try it. What's to lose? More blank checks?