Or else ... like do something tough

Some may be stuck in the embarrassing language of New Age pap, but not so the literary giants at DailyKos who can dish out such sophisticated bromides as "[the troops are] in harm's way" in a peice that threatens dire consequences for the Democrats if they do not get us out of Iraq (AlterNet: War on Iraq: Democrats: Work to Get Us Out of Iraq ... or Else!):

We do not know what the next year will bring, but we know how to start getting where we know the endgame of Iraq will eventually go, and the most essential task we currently have to to ensure that no more lives than necessary go towards the political cowardice of the current institutionalized quagmire.

Now that's the sort of sentence (perhaps along with "weapons of mass destruction-related program activities") that probably gives his colleague MissLaura a hard-on. But this is not just about impressive rhetoric; there is a deadline attached to the threat:

There are no more acceptable six month windows to see if the same "plan", called a different name, will produce different results.

Impressive, especially in light of the approval elsewhere in the "netroots" of the latest Democratic proposal on Iraq, this one calling for some sort of withdrawal in 2008 (yes that's an at the end of those digits). Fortunately there is raw fury elsewhere:

You have no idea how much raw fury there is out there, just under the surface. And all the "Democratic apologists" like me are on our very last ounce of patience, and all the grassroots supporters have torches lit and and at the ready, and all the Democrats and Republicans in your district are watching to see whether you're really different from the Republicans or not...

You mean... no... you couldn't... you mean, like Nader said?