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I don’t think this will turn truly ugly for a couple of months but 2007 is shaping up to be a nightmare:

Democratic Senator Carl Levin said American voters had spoken “overwhelmingly” for a change in Iraq and urged a reduction of US troops to begin “in four to six months.”

Senator Levin, who is expected to head the Senate Armed Services Committee in the next Congress, told ABC television the US military presence in Iraq could not be “open-ended”.

But White House chief of staff Josh Bolten said the administration would not support a timetable for pulling troops out of Iraq.

“As soon as we can get them out, we will,” Mr Bolten told CNN’s “Late Edition”.

The White House is trying to sell a change in “tactics” but (correctly) believes that handing a huge victory to al Qaeda and Iran isn’t much of a tactic. That thought doesn’t even occur to the Democratic strategists who aren’t looking even a single day past the day we leave Iraq.

Jim Addison supplies the obligatory “I told you so“:

It only goes to show that when conservatives and Republicans angered Democrats by calling them “Defeatocrats” and accusing them of wanting to cut and run from Iraq, we were telling the truth.

And Debbie Hamilton some good advice for Conservatives:

Prepare for 2008 and work like the country’s future depends on conservatives getting back in power again, because it does.

Whining won’t get us far. Reform and hard work will.

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