Progressive Democrats Defend Party Leaders By Geoffey Millard, Lance Page, and Scott Galindez

At this years Take Back America Conference Congressman Keith Ellison took aim at a debate that is dividing Progressives when he told them not to allow their frustrations with Congress' inability to stop the war in Iraq divide them. "You might be mad at the Congress because they didn't end the war in six months but I'm here to ask you for us to not fall out over tactics and strategies," Ellison said that it is right that Progressives should be impatient with the pace of change, particularly when it comes to Iraq, "but don't turn your dissatisfaction into a cannibalistic enterprise."
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The Democrats' Iraqi Dilemma

Ira Chernus of TomDispatch.com writes: "Pity the poor Democratic candidates for president, caught between Iraq and a hard place. Every day, more and more voters decide that we must end the war and set a date to start withdrawing our troops from Iraq. Most who will vote in the Democratic primaries concluded long ago that we must leave Iraq, and they are unlikely to let anyone who disagrees with them have the party's nomination in 2008."