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I’m copying almost all of Atrios’ comment since it seems to hit the nail on the head. 

George Bush is in charge of foreign policy. George Bush is obsessed with staying in Iraq. George Bush equates leaving with losing. We can, as TNR seems to want to do, spend our days constructing magical pony plans for Iraq, and arguing with each other about whether timetables or deadlines or blahblahblahblah are the “best plan.” Or we can understand that in this political reality, the best we can hope for is to shift, in a very blunt way, focus from “staying” to “leaving.”

The Last Honest Man took swipes at Ned Lamont when Lamont said something like, “I’m for deadlines, I’m for timetables, whatever.” But Lamont obviously understands what’s going on. The point is not to construct some perfect unwavering plan, the point is to find a way to force George Bush to get us the fuck out of there. TNR people can spend their days patting themselves on the back constructing ever more nuanced fantasy plans, and marveling at how much more serious they are than the dirty fucking hippies, but meanwhile we’re still in Iraq. All any of us on the outside can do is try to provide the pressure to switch from “we’re staying” to “we’re leaving.” The rest of it is just wankery.

That sums up the Iraq situation pretty clearly.  It’s been a while since my American history classes, but I remember hearing that many American politicians defined leaving as losing and we all know how well that turned out.

Iraq is George W. Bush’s creation, based on conservative ideology of international affairs and muscular militarism, as well as the complete inability of conservatives to think about the Middle East in ways more complex than “Islam evil Christianity good”.  Iraq  and should be the stone around the Republican party’s neck for the next 30 years.  The Iraq War (trademark) is a wholly own subsidiary of the Republican Party.

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