Good points, Phil. And how quickly Helen Thomas forgets that Hillary Clinton has
never taken a position of withdrawing all the troops, and Edwards, when he was a Senator, voted
for the Oct 2002 Authorization to Use Force. Later he said he "made a mistake". Later, when it was clear that his newly-organized constituency of progressive middle class people were almost unanimously opposed to continuing the Occupation.
Thomas also quickly forgets that while most Americans do think it is time to end the Occupation, very few support the idea of the military abandoning Iraq altogether.
As I have harped and harangued in other discussions, the Dem's could win with ANY of the three top candidates and we'd be a THOUSAND percent better off, just on the basis of what they
did promise. Just a reminder, folks.
- CLINTON: "vast majority" out by 2013
- OBAMA: "end all combat missions immediately"
- EDWARDS: All combat troops withdrawn "within months".
I confess to being on the side of seeing the glass as half full. Meanwhile, I continue my earnest support for Dennis Kucinich, the candidate who can fill the glass all the way.
