Pulling out of Iraq before 2009? Not Going to Happen.

Let me start off by saying I am against the Iraq War. I am sad to say not from the beginning, I supported the war when it first started, but after three months or so I started to see that that was a mistake, there were no WMD’s to be found, we were starting to get bogged down with no exit strategy in sight. I then obtained the view that we had to stay in Iraq to fix what we had done, but after a year or so with no end in sight and a civil war going on I knew the best thing was to get out of Iraq. So when the Democrats took back Congress in 2006 I was happy but soon learned that a pullout before 2009 was not possible; here is why. There are only a few things that the Democrats can do they can pass a bill for a partial withdrawal and pull more troops out over time, they can set a date for when all the troops must be out of Iraq, or they can cut off funding. With the withdrawal plan it seems we have the votes to get it passed (even with a few Republicans voting for it) but you know that the President will veto it and we definitely do not have the 2/3 votes needed to override the veto. It seems very unlikely that till will happen.
The other option we have is cutting of funding for the war. At first I was skeptical about this, as I feared it might make the Democrats look bad in the eyes of the public that we were cutting off funds for the troops. Then I realized that with the majority of Americans opposed to the Iraq War they would see it as a way of ending the war. Unfortunately even if Congress did pass a bill like this the president would once again veto it and we definitely do not have the 2/3 votes needed to override the veto. it looks like the best thing for the Democrats to do is keep passing bill after bill that calls for the withdrawal of the troops and with each veto the American people will see it is President Bush that is keeping the troops there.