On 10/27/06, Yoshie Furuhashi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I read the same article and also wondered what it meant.
Then, it occurred to me that maybe the NYT reporter meant to suggest
that the Democratic Party leaders will not do anything radical like
denying the President his war funds or impeaching him or things like
them. Unless Congress forces withdrawal or removes the President, it
will be still the White House rather than Congress that will determine
the conduct of the war day to day.
Yoshie
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there were no floor debates in congress about vietnam until 1970,
there was no resolution proposed to cut off funds for the war until
1971 (submitted, oddly enough, by florida first-termer lawton chiles
who'd been in the senate only about three months when he submitted his
proposal)... mh
