Comments on: John Edwards’ Iraq Pullout Plan

By: Ray Robison

Ray Robison — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 19:29:36 +0000

Since the US mission in Iraq is clearly mandated by United Nations resolution and the request of the host country, this makes John Edwards a cowboy with a "go it alone" foreign policy.

heh

By: Tlaloc

Tlaloc — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 18:33:09 +0000

Still, it’s hard to imagine that removing a professional security force from the country would help reduce violence.

In the short term, true. In the long term, false.

Iraq is hopeless. There's just nothing there to keep it together as a state, except our troops, and a lot there that is tearing it apart. It needs to come apart. There can be no progress until it does.

And, yes, that process is going to suck. no doubt about that at all.

But it has to happen. All we do now is prevent the inevitable. And in the meantime a lot of people die (even with the influence of the surge, more than 400 civilians are killed every month in Iraq).

By: Independent Liberal » Nadir of Edwards

Independent Liberal » Nadir of Edwards — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 16:59:26 +0000

[...] this week. It’s not wrong to change one’s mind based on the available facts–as James Joyner notes, Edwards has good reason to be concerned about the lack of political progress in Iraq. But [...]

By: Sister Toldjah » Going for broke: John Edwards calls for rapid withdrawal from Iraq

Wed, 02 Jan 2008 16:16:30 +0000

[...] of withdrawing most troops within ten months of his (hoped for) election as president (h/t: James Joyner): SIOUX CITY, Iowa — John Edwards says that if elected president he would withdraw the American [...]