But let's get back on track here. You say that he has a time line to pull out troops, but the article I just sent you mentions no specifics regarding when to pull out troops, merely when the security situation permits. McCain wants the same thing.
Gruss Gott wrote: > > Obama submitted an opinion piece to the New York Times titled, "My > Plan for Iraq," where he detailed his goal of withdrawing U.S. troops > from Iraq in 16 months if he is elected. > > Iraqi PM al-Maliki in response said, "US presidential candidate Barack > Obama is right when he talks about 16 months" > > Note that, as Robert pointed out, an Iraqi spokesman has claimed that > Maliki was "misquoted", but interestingly offered no clarification or > alternative translation. > > In response to Obama's piece McCain sent his own article but the Times > rejected it because McCain refused to define victory and it was > largely a critique of Obama's position, arguing against establishing a > set timetable for pulling out U.S. troops, rather than his own plan. > > "During the course of eight visits to Iraq, I have heard many times > from our troops what Major General Jeffrey Hammond, commander of > coalition forces in Baghdad, recently said: that leaving based on a > timetable would be 'very dangerous,'" McCain wrote. > > So therein lies your problem: there exists nowhere in the Universe > anyone who will write down a mission, objectives, and timeline for > success in Iraq. > > The best you can find is people who say that Patreaus will fix > everything, but they forget that he simply executes the mission. The > President sets the mission. > > In McCain (and Bush and every pro Iraq deployment supporter) you have > a person completely unable to define the mission, much less any > objectives, or any plan. > > Obama does has a mission and he does have a plan and that plan has > objectives and a timetable. > > The fact that he is willing to define a mission alone should be enough > to elect him commander-in-chief. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:264334 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
