Subject: Whose Fault For The Failures to Bring 'em Home: Larry, the failure of Congress to pass legislation to bring our troops home from Iraq is NOT the fault of the Democrats. This argument implies that if Congress only had more Republicans, we would soon have our troops home. This kind of spin will soon make those who are blaming Democrats as having failed as laughable as Fox News. Although House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) clearly have failed to carry out the mandate given to them by the electorate, One could hardly be more wrong about why they failed. The unprecedented obstinacy of George Bush's unitary presidency epitomizes the uncompromising attitude that has taken over the once pragmatic Republican Party. Senate Republicans repeatedly threaten to filibuster Democratic legislation, such as last year's moderate proposals to separate Iraq deployments by equal time back in the U.S. That proposal failed in the Senate because few Republicans were willing to break with the president for even the best of causes. Bush's mantra that it is an unpatriotic failure to support our troops unless Congress rubber-stamps all of his disastrous Iraq policies is arrogant hogwash. Electing more Democrats is the only answer to bringing our brave troops home from this disaster. J