A bipartisan bill making "redeployment" the official US policy of 2006 will be introduced soon. Props to Kooch for being on top of this, and very big ups to the GOPers (reps Paul and Jones) with the courage to defy the Republican Establishment and sponsor this legislation. We need to get out of Iraq, and congressional action is realistically one of the only ways to get that ball moving.

Given the emerging picture of attitude of the Republican Establishment toward the law -- which seems to be that they think they're above it -- I don't know how much difference this resolution, were it to pass, would make. Still, it would certainly put significant political pressure on the President, which seems to be the only thing he (occasionally) responds to.

The only way to force an end would be to go after the money -- to stop authorizing those $50B payouts -- but that's pretty fucking unlikely.