War Funding w/o a Timeline?

I don’t know what to make of the failure of the Congressional Democrats to force the White House to change course in Iraq. I never really thought that they would be successful, it was an impossible battle, without having larger support. Maybe they will be able to something for real in July or this fall.
Still, I think this will be bad for the Democrats. The American people want to end this war, and as we keep stalling, our approval rating keeps falling. When we do something real to change the situation in Iraq, the American People will respond.

It is often said that we were out in the political wilderness after Vietnam because we ended the war. But, why then do many Republicans talk about how Nixon “ended” the war? The fact is that we weren’t hurt by our efforts to end the war, but the fact that we didn’t win the war in the first place. It was LBJ’s failures, not the demands of the left, that brought about the “mommy” problem. Perhaps those failures were inevitable, but perhaps Bush’s failures were just as inevitable, and they will have the same level, if not a higher level, of an effect on our national consciousness.

But, Democrats have to seize this opportunity. We have caught up with Republicans in our ability to organize, we need to actually organize and get active, and we need our leaders to take action. And if they don’t, we need to be willing to take action ourselves. The situation in Iraq is deteriorating in front of our eyes. Staying is only delaying the inevitable, as much as I hate to say it, we have lost the war in Iraq, and no surge, or "new" "stealth" surge isn't going to do it either.

Its time to end the war as we know it.