Democratic presidential candidates: US troops could stay in Iraq until 2013

Looks like the Democratic establishment wants to take ownership of the Iraq War. 2013 my ass!

Democratic presidential candidates: US troops could stay in Iraq until 2013

By Bill Van Auken
28 September 2007

The Democratic Party’s pretense of opposing the war in Iraq has largely collapsed following a series of defeats in the US Senate last week of Democratic-sponsored legislation proposing timetables for partial “redeployment” of the more than 160,000 troops currently occupying the country.

Nothing could make clearer the real position of the party, however, than the Democratic debate Wednesday night in New Hampshire, in which all three of the party’s leading presidential candidates—Senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama and former Senator John Edwards—refused to commit themselves, if elected, to withdrawing all American troops from Iraq by the beginning of their second term—in 2013.

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The claim by all the leading candidates that a substantial US military force will be required in Iraq indefinitely to protect the US embassy is particularly telling. This American-built fortress, occupying a 65-acre compound, is by far the biggest embassy on the planet and is built to accommodate a staff of over 1,100.

What is being prepared in this massive structure is not a diplomatic mission, but a colonial-style administration that is meant to continue wielding the real power in Iraq. For such a project, large numbers of American troops would indeed be needed for many years and even decades to come.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/sep2007/iraq-s28.shtml

Is it taking the easy way to whine and bitch from the bleachers?

Has this party ever elected anybody to any office in this century?

No, that would queer the self-righteous excuse for being a loser.

That is the way I see it.

through the end of their first term, they lost my vote. I was deeply offended and deeply disappointed. We can't even begin to change our financial situation until we get out of Iraq.