So Bush is agreeing to a time table to exit Iraq. He is also meeting with Iran. All that talk for all these years has amounted to nothing. He is pretty much doing what Barack Obama has outlined in his policies as he runs for office. Hold Iraq accountable, engage Iran, draw down troops, and focus on the real centers of terror like Afghanistan and Pakistan. These are the realities of diplomacy, not the fantasy WMD stories or Wars-that-end-in-obvious-victories the Right likes to repeat. We can't control people 6000 miles away with force. The Republican Kook-Aid bunch are trying to lessen the impact of their failed administration by adopting, even if it is at the last minute, what the Democratic Congress was voted in place to do: end this occupation and bottomless spending.If you were to take 5 actions that are the same, one done by a Republican and one by a Democrat, see how different the press would report on it. Democrats who want time tables are cutting and running and losing the war while Republicans who want time tables are winning and claim Mission Accomplished.
Whether you're Right or Left, here's what Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, describes Iraq, "I won't go so far as to say that progress in Iraq from a military perspective has reached a tipping point or is irreversible _ it has not, and it is not."
No long term success, no peace, just bundles of money spent and lives lost. The Right Wing are changing horses in the middle of the race and they know it.
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