Sunday, September 30, 2007

Iraq until at least 2013?


During the debate, she rarely came out of a defensive crouch, as if determined to protect her favored position. Answering the first question, she said her goal would be to withdraw all American troops from Iraq by 2013, but "it is very difficult to know what we are going to be inheriting" from the Bush administration, so she cannot make any pledge...read more of David S Broder @ Washington Post

3 comments:

Unknown said...

Finally the Democrats and flaming Left Wing Liberals are realizing that we can't just pack our bags and leave. How ironic they campaigned on “we'll get the troops out and bring everyone home”, but as time gets closer to election, the complexity of the war finally sinks in and they realize withdrawal and “cut and run” techniques won’t work and could have never worked. For those who think Bush sucks because he wont pull out or leave like many people want him to, your sorry excuse for political leaders of Hillary, Obama, and Edwards wont get them out anytime soon either. Its not as easy as you think, way more than just putting soldiers on planes and flying them home.

Casey said...

Wait, I thought we already won? "Mission Accomplished" means nothing?

Unknown said...

Mission Accomplish? You thought we had already won, accomplished everything? Are you referring to the banner on the USS Lincoln in 2003 when Bush gave a speech with the banner in the back ground reading "Mission Accomplished"

"What (the president) said was that it was put up by the Navy, by people on board the ship and that was correct," his spokesman Scott McClellan said Wednesday.

"It was an idea that was suggested by those on the ship as a way to honor the sailors and crew on board the USS Lincoln for accomplishing their mission." http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/1030-06.htm