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	<title><![CDATA[The Innocent Bystander Fable Goes Into Overdrive]]></title>
	<url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-sirota/the-innocent-bystander-fa_1_b_63734.html</url>
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<p>The <em>Washington Post</em> is the latest Establishment media organ to push what I have called the Innocent Bystander Fable (<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7raAL3Wld0">memorialized in this YouTube video</a>) -- the myth that Democrats have no power to stop the war, despite controlling both houses of Congress. The <em>Post </em>writes, "Democrats began their fight against what came to be called the surge with public opinion on their side, but with <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/09/AR2007090901992.html">virtually no...</a></p>]]></abstract>
	<taxonomy><![CDATA[Politics]]></taxonomy>
	<date_published>2008-03-28T02:47:00-04:00</date_published>
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