Democrats are set to roll out their policy agenda because "if we don't define what we stand for," said a Pelosi spokesman, "they'll define it for us." But increasingly Democrats are defining themselves on Iraq. Senator John Kerry yesterday to a gathering of liberals at the "Take Back America" conference:
It was right to dissent from a war in 1971 that was wrong and could not be won. And now, in 2006, it is both a right and an obligation for Americans to stand up to a president who is wrong today.