WASHINGTON – House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid get high marks for attempting to set deadlines to end the Iraq war from the Communist Party USA national committee, which just ended its annual meeting in New York.

National Chairman Sam Webb admitted he was skeptical about what the Democrats might do following last November's midterm election in which they swept to power in both houses of the Congress.

"Now, four months later, it may be a stretch to say a sea change in political relationships has occurred, but it is not too far off the mark," he told the official People's Weekly World.

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Congress is now "a site of real debate, contending forces and sharp struggles," Webb said.

He was particularly pleased with the passage in the House of the Employee Free Choice Act, a non-binding resolution against escalating the war and a supplemental spending bill setting deadlines for troop withdrawal from Iraq.

While warning that the far right "retains considerable power and muscle," Webb said, "its power is far more circumscribed" as the administration's past sins come home to roost.

Webb and other speakers emphasized the importance of the House passage of deadlines for U.S. withdrawal from Iraq.

Calling approval "a major victory," he sees it leading to a new political dynamic to end the war.

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