Kerry and Feingold see bright side in defeat

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http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/news_theswamp/2006/06/kerry_and_feing.html#more

Kerry and Feingold see bright side in defeat

You win some in Congress, you lose some. And you win by losing 86-13.

So said Sens. John Kerry and Russell Feingold today, after their bid to require the president to withdraw U.S. forces from Iraq by July, 2007, lost by that lopsided margin.

But don't count the loss as a loss, they said.

"It was a striking vote," Feingold explained. "It was more than anybody thought we would get."

Last week, a similar effort, with a Dec. 31 pullout date, got six votes.

As a result, said Kerry, today's outcome was "terrific, several votes more than we anticipated. It was a victory in a sense."

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1. The Dems need to keep pounding on this war and how

dimson screwed the whole thing up from soup to nuts.