[EternalVigilance]

People are way overrating the power of Congress to influence foreign policies. The executive branch and the President of the United States is stronger than 66% of Congress on domestic issues and stronger than 90% of Congress on foreign policy issues. Many people outside and inside the US are about to learn some lessons about the US Constitution.

What you say is true...IF the Executive understands and has the political courage to exercise his power.

There is some reason to fear in that regard, currently.

[LadyNavyVet]

I fear the same. The President seems quite chastened by the vote. If he believes that withdrawing is the will of the American sheeple, which it is, unfortunately, I think he'll go along. He couldn't give them Rumsfeld's head on a platter fast enough, which was exactly the wrong thing to do, as it gave the Dems a taste of their new power, and now they're drunk with it. Like the emotional teenagers they are, the Dems will now test the limits of authority. With the constant MSM drumbeat about how great getting out of Iraq will be, I expect us to be mostly out by election '08.