I’ve of course been watching as Congressional Democrats forced their Iraq withdrawal bills to conference and now passage. Pelosi and Reid deserve a good bit of credit for enforcing party unity with shaky majorities, but it has always irritated me that any time a Democrat talked about the bill, they echoed President Squinty’s threat to veto any bill that called for withdrawal. I’m not sure why they felt the need to interject that information, and I don’t like that they have been doing this for years. But here’s my question/suggestion: Now that the bill has passed, why don’t all Democrats start acting and speaking as if the war is over? Bush hasn’t vetoed it yet, so why not consolidate public opinion (where strong majorities support ending the war) and declare victory? At least for a day or two until Bush can get his shiny veto stamp out. Then when he does the deed, it won’t be continuing the war, it will be re-starting it.