Comments on: If Obama Wins, Can He Really Leave Iraq?

The Nation: A President Obama Will Face Huge Opposition To An Iraq Pullout, From All Circles - Even His Own Party

[idnnsg]

Obama WILL withdraw from Iraq because, AS HE HAS SAID ALL ALONG, it is the wrong war, at the wrong time, against the wrong people. Obama thinks we need to do more in Afghanistan. We don''t have enough troops to do that unless we pull out of Iraq. The stu.pid policy of Bush and the Neocons to pay off various warlords in Afghanistan to do our bidding has NOT worked. And Osama bin Laden has been free ALL THIS TIME because, in fact, he and Bush are buddies, playing a dirty game. So far, bin Laden is winning.

You repugs are all 100% delusional. It''s the ONLY thing that could possibly explain your support of Bush the Cowboy Failure, and now McCain the Grumpy Old Cancer Man and his Airheaded Bimbo.

You have lost this election. Now go crawl back into your dark little corner and sulk. We are tired of listening to your sick, twisted repuke crappola.

[idnnsg]

Only in your fevered dreams, promaclaura!

[promaclaura]

Here it comes, the time when democrats will realize they''ve been had. Barack and the democrats "get out of Iraq" tirades were all show and now the libs will figure out what most conservatives have been talking about all along. The democrats have been putting on a big propaganda show to fool their constituents, rev up the anger and paint GW as an evil man. It worked, they have all forgotten their guys voted for the war as well and that the worst enemy the republicans were fighting were low-life democrats who were willing to "use" a war to gain election momemtum. Everybody watch, there will not be any charges brought against GW or Cheney because there was no "he lied" proof in the first place, this talking point was the lib media and democrats made up "facts" to gain their first love "power", because it certainly hasn''t been a "country first" campaign.

[ecs1749-2009]

The messiah can lie about anything and his follower will swallow it whole - line, hook, and sinker.

Suckers!

[incog-nito]

Sam: Getting out of Iraq won''t be easy for any president, and Obama may well not be able to do so in the time frame he wants. But you still got to have a goal to shoot for. The fact is there will be no "victory" there, especially when nobody has really defined what victory means. Iran, Syria, etc. are still next door and will keep trying to destabilize Iraq''s government. The only real way to stabilize Iraq, at least for a while, is to install another strongman. Since we''re not doing that, Iraq will remain an unstable country. The Arab Middle-East is simply not ready for democracy, and in fact democracy can make things even more dangerous.

[samthetvcat]

PS You know the sense is that Barack''s got it in the bad when pundits after shielding him all year are suddenly hedging their bets . . . jmo, but I think when anybody sticks up for a person either through active advocacy or willful ignorance for the better part of the two year campaign, you basically become responsible in part for the forseeable consequences that arise as a result.

Same with anybody who votes for the person like I voted for Barack . . . you hope for the best, but really it looks like the chances of getting out of Iraq with a clean break aren''t good . . .

[samthetvcat]

---"Third, and most troubling, Obama says that Americans will have to tighten their belts because of the "cost of the war in Iraq." Doesn''t that mean that the war will continue?"---

Ooh, good catch. He''s been waffling all along, but since Iraq hasn''t been dominating the issues, he really hasn''t been caught on record of late contradicting himself until this I guess.

Are Dems really that sure we have the luxury of extending withdrawal? We don''t get much chance to really ''read'' the people of Iraq, but from what little we''ve seen from them so far haven''t most of us pretty much concluded that if it''s quiet over there it''s because they''ve CHOSEN to be?

Like say Dems decide they want to extend withdrawal, but Iraqis decide they want to speed it up. Who''s got the power to decided? Isn''t it the militants?