Democrats: Panel's Findings Consistent With Their Proposals

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/06/AR2006120600985.html

Democrats: Panel's Findings Consistent With Their Proposals

Congressional leaders of both parties welcomed the report of the Iraq Study Group as a chance to build a national consensus over how to proceed in a conflict that has claimed almost 2,900 American lives, cost $400 billion and shows no signs of abating.

While some Democrats treated the group's findings as an indictment of President Bush, key Republicans agreed it should trigger a national debate about the nearly four-year-old conflict.

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Sen. Carl M. Levin (D-Mich.), who will become chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee next month, said the report "represents another blow at the policy of stay the course that this administration has followed. Hopefully, this will be the end of that stay-the-course policy." Democratic leaders said the report underscores the message American voters sent in the November mid-term elections, when Democrats gained control of the House and Senate.

Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. (D-Del.), incoming chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said the committee will hold "extensive hearings," beginning in mid January, to examine the report's recommendations.

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1. Oh, good, another 'debate' on Iraq.

I wonder if it will be like the last one? You know, the one before the election where Republican after Republican took to the floor to denounce cutting and running and calling all Democrats cowards and traitors for daring to consider changing our Iraq policy?

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2. Where is the caring in these comments? They are all just attack

statements.The American people want to see something different from the Democrats than what it has been getting from the Republicans. Biden's and Levin's statements read like we told you so and now your going to get it.