Comments on: How the Candidates Differ on Iraq

By: anjin-san

anjin-san — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 02:24:40 +0000

Osama bin Laden, who both said that Iraq was the central battleground in this struggle,”

How hard is it to connect the dots? Bin Landen made it very clear that he plans to bring us down economically. He has kept up in Iraq, month after month, year after year, bleeding us economically.

Look at our economy. Think about the money we have spent in Iraq and what it might have bought us at home.

By: Dave Schuler

Dave Schuler — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 01:08:17 +0000

The Bush Administration has already withdrawn some forces from Iraq and I believe that whoever is president will withdraw more since the conditions in Iraq allows and the rotation scheme requires it.

The current troop commitment in Iraq is unsustainable and anything that's unsustainable won't be sustained regardless of who's president.

By: Beldar

Beldar — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:25:21 +0000

Dave: Obama's been all over the map on Iraq. Any position you can imagine, anywhere on the spectrum from hard-right to hard-left, I can find you Barack Obama quotations to support. No one has any clue what he'd actually do. That includes Barack Obama. No one can doubt, however, that if he's elected, it will be due to the fanatical support he's received from the MoveOn.org crowd, who at least think they own him, and who were against even the war in Afghanistan.

By: LaurenceB

LaurenceB — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 23:59:42 +0000

Dave,

What exactly has McCain said that makes you believe he plans to "withdraw some of our forces from Iraq, leaving a residual force"? Has he ever said that, or are you just projecting what you would like to think he believes?

By: Brett

Brett — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 21:37:16 +0000

Obama's view sounds kind of like Realpolitik; he wants a secure Iraq that won't be home to terrorism - the key interest of the United States - and which would allow a number of US forces to stay on board if necessary (which has the added convenience of allowing us to keep military bases in the area). The way he put it, a democratic Iraq is secondary - nice, but not the most important thing for us.