As you are probably well aware, last week Congress (or should I say the Democrats) passed a bill that will give President Bush funding for the war in Iraq until September.  Here is why I believe the Democrats passed such a bill.

One reason is that from now on, the Republicans cannot say that the Democrats don't support the troops.  By passing giving in to Bush's demands and fully funding the war until September, this shows everyone that the Democrats support the troops.

Secondly, from a political standpoint only, by not ending the war greatly benifits the Democrats.  The war is only going to get worse.  That is evident.  The worse the war gets, the more the American people will hate Republicans.  When it comes time to elections, people will remember this and vote for Democrats.  The Democrats are trying to build an empire like the Republicans have had before Bush was in office.

Thirdly, if the Democrats would have not funded the war and allowed it to come to an end, by 2008 the American people would have completely forgot about who ended the war and wouldn't vote Democrat.  Another fault for doing this would be that the Republicans could soley run on their famous talking point of the Democrats don't support the troops and win on it.

The only draw back for not ending the war now is quite obvious.  American's are losing their lives day after day and enough is enough.  Things aren't going to get any better in Iraq and we just need to face it.

At first I was really upset that the Democrats didn't end the war when they had the chance but I came to realize that it is better to lose one battle than to lose the whole campaigne.  By allowing the Republicans win the battle of letting their war go on for a little bit longer allows the Democrats to start building a solid party that can potentially take the White House in 2008 and keep a Congressional majority for a long time in the future.