Chuck Hagel, Susan Collins, Ted Kennedy and Dennis Kucinich all have something in common. Not only are they against the 'surge' (which one can at least do on the basis that it sounds more like some marketing plan than something designed to change reality), but also they want us out if Iraq.
Of course everyone wants us out of Iraq, but they want us out of Iraq either immediately or with a fig leaf.
Chuck Hagel describes the surge as the most dangerous blunder in American foreign policy since Vietnam (sorry but that one goes to Jimmy Carter in Afghanistan in his trust of our adversaries). Dennis and Ted are somewhere in the vicinity of Michael Moore, and Ms. Collins who apparently simply wants to get off the tack she is sitting on, is slightly obfuscatory.
Join them to the paleo-Buchananites who only this week called those who think democracy is a good idea for the world, "snake oil salesmen", and we have a picture of the new Vietnamese anti-war coalition who won the last election in the USA (of course there are far more reasons than that for the vote...like it's what happens every 6th year with a president who serves 2 terms).
However, I find myself wondering why the imperative of 'leaving' is never followed with questions, or an explanation of how leaving makes us safer.
Will the ginstu wielding freaks of Al Anbar be assuaged and rendered peaceful....or are they simply going to fire shots vertically from their AK's and rage impotently because, though having the intent to kill us, they lack the means.
Will Al Sadr be satisfied with his new puppet regime? Or will we see him grinning with Hassan Nasrallah and Mesbah Yazdi in a meeting planning how to ensure we have no American troops anywhere in the middle east, since the Al Saud, and the Gulf states can be intimidated over their treacherous and stomachless friends? Or is their view larger?
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