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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Having a lot of troops in the country is not exactly making it stable. There is a school of thought that the only way to resolve the conflict is to have the Iraqis stand up, and the only way to do that is for the Americans to leave.
On this issue, Lamont is how politics is supposed to work. Lieberman is behind a position that CT Democrats no longer support. Enter a primary challenger articulating a position that's where the voters are.
Even if Lamont is elected, it's not like he's going to be Secretary of Defense. What seems odd to me is that you would waste more time attacking a Democratic Senatorial candidate in CT for his Iraqi position than you would attacking the position -- or lack thereof -- of the assclowns who have been running this war for the last several years and who are now planning the next war with Iran.
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Ty --
1. This is not how politics is supposed to work. The "machine" in CT is pushing a popular candidate out because he's not towing the party line, which is dictated by a strident, foolish minority. You admitted as much when you said Lieberman had to go because he was bucking his own party too much. This is an example of exactly what politics shouldn't be. It's exactly the sort of idiot extremist tale wagging the dog the Democrats decry in the GOP. It reminds me a little bit of the GOP running over McCain. That was wrong and stupid, and this is just as dim.
2. The theory that pulling troops out will stabilize Iraq is a feeble attempt to come up with a justification for cutting and running. We pull the troops and the place will fall into civil war. Doing that is a senseless risk. If we're wrong on that gamble, we'll have to send troops back in, at considerable increased loss of life and cost. I will grant you this, that position does a surprising level of creativity in Democratic rationalizations. I didn't know they could be that imaginative.
3. We're not going to war with Iran, and you know better than to make blanket statements like that. Come on. We can discuss this without getting into that level of broad brushed deflection and grandstanding.
SD
