From: Max Sawicky ------------------------------ Lawrence Korb, former Reagan Asst SecDef and now at the Center for American Progress, said the same thing the other day on the Stephanie Miller radio show.
I feel even stupider than usual since Obama's Iraqi peace-mongering was one of his chief distinguishing features from HRC. Another was his SS proposal, which also went down the toilet a long while back. ^^^^^ CB: According to Juan Cole, widely recognized leftish sage on Iraq, it is not the Bush-Petraeus plan , but the Iraqi Parliament plan. http://archives.econ.utah.edu/archives/pen-l/2010w31/msg00053.htm Although it is true that Obama is just faithfully following the SOFA (the timetable of which was dictated by the Iraqi parliament, not the Bush administration), it should be remembered that US adherence to the timetable could not be taken for granted. A President McCain would almost certainly have subverted the schedule and tried to keep more troops, and more active combat troops, in Iraq than the Iraqi legislators wanted. And, the outcome would have been a ratcheting up of tensions with Iran, Shiite militias, and Sunni nationalists. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
