Who Will Bring Our Troops Home the Earliest? (On Edit: Alive)

[WhoCountsTheVotes]

Poll question: Who Will Bring Our Troops Home the Earliest? (On Edit: Alive)

Every candidate says they want to bring our troops home. Unfortunately, it seems that many candidates are promising to keep our troops occupying Iraq for years. It seems that most people on DU have been opposed to the War Against Iraq, and wants our troops home.

So which candidate, as President, would actually bring our troops home the earliest?

[JVS]

1. Lieberman? How?

[jpgray]

2. In caskets? (nt)

[WhoCountsTheVotes]

6. You're right, I should have specified - I mean bring them home alive

Yes, I would like them home alive.

[sleipnir]

4. No, in transfer tubes (sad.........) :(

n/t

[Langis]

3. Did you really need a poll?

it's Kucinich hands down.

[jpgray]

5. The most likely is Kucinich

But I guess there's an outside possibility for the others--say if our guys hijack a few dozen C-141s... :)

[adamrsilva]

7. Dennis, of course, because he wants to cut and run.

A better poll would be if who of the others could fix the Iraq situation the easiest, and thus, get the troops home earlier.

[JVS]

10. Cut and run gets my support!

Hopefully the other candidates will follow Kucinich's lead

[DuctapeFatwa]

11. His plan is just to have the UN occupy Iraq instead of US

It is possible that he does not realize that the UN is basically a department of the US government, whose purpose is to give the appearance of international "approval" to whatever US business interests wish to do with US properties in other parts of the world, sometimes referred to by anti-American terrorist sympathizers as "other countries."

His plan would look a lot better to me if it began by the US withdrawing voluntarily from the UN, and giving it a blank check to go set up shop somewhere else, where it would hopefully do what it should have done a long time ago - send UN peacekeepers to the US to disarm it (and it's weapons depot in the Levant) a UN protectorate until such time as free, open, universal franchise, monitored elections can be held.

[WhoCountsTheVotes]

19. to have the UN do the rebuilding

Instead of having the Bush administration and US oil companies directly appointing imperial governors like we have now. Iraq needs elections and soon.

[AnAmerican]

21. Wrong answer, but thanks for playing

:eyes:

If you spread mis-characterizations and un-truths often enough folks begin to believe em right?? SOunds like a move out of the BFEE playbook.

[Kathleen04]

8. DK

His plan brings them all home in 90 days.

[KittyWampus]

9. The Edit In Your Thread Title Was REALLY Heavy!

it actually effected me :(

Post Script... I didn't vote. Who can really answer this question?

[WhoCountsTheVotes]

23. good

:mad:

[Northwind]

12. I am Dean all the way

But the only honest answer to this question is Kucinich.

The only problem is DK would do it without thought to the consequences or repsonsibilities we have incurred in the region.

[WhoCountsTheVotes]

13. how many soldiers per year will die under Dean's plan?

I absolutely want to give a "thought to the consequences or repsonsibilities we have incurred in the region". So how many US soldiers, and how long, will it cost?

I wonder, since he will take longer to bring home our troops (according to you). How many soldiers/year are we talking about anyway?

When Dean says "years" how many does he mean exactly?

[WillyT]

18. About The Same As Under Clark, Kerry, Not As Much As Will Under...

Gephardt, Edwards, Lieberman, more than will under DK, Sharpton, CMB...

But definitely WAY less than under GWB!!!

Is THIS what you were really looking for with that question??? And did it help ya out at all?

:wtf:

[WhoCountsTheVotes]

22. okay

Why are Gephardt and Edwards in for longer? I wasn't aware of a difference in policy? Lieberman will have us in ten different places in a year of course.

[CalebHayes]

14. DK no question

[revcarol]

15. DK, of course...

and responsibly, without cutting and running.

Cutting and running is what I expect of Bush if it becomes obvious to repugs that we are in another quagmire. Just declare,"Mission Accomplished" and leave those Iraqis to starve, AFTER "SECURING" THE OIL FIELDS.

DK is not of this ilk.

[blm]

16. Who has a track record of finding ways to end wars?

.

[Forkboy]

20. Yeah but we can't vote for the A-Bomb

;-)

[Paulie]

24. Fat Man or Little Boy

Fan Man for sure. :)

[Bombtrack]

17. Kucinich will never win the primary, so I'd say Clark

he has the diplomatic skills necessary to turn the military occupation into a NATO force and the the transitional governence into a UN operation and then afterwards both into a completely Iraqi operation.

on edit: I believe that Only Clark, Kerry, Edwards, or Lieberman would be likely to win a general election as well, so my choice remains clark.

[redqueen]

25. Who's the only one willing to work on the UN's terms?

Who will forgo the spoils of war (oil & reconstruction contracts)?

This is a no-brainer. It's Kucinich, of course. :)

I love all the 'cut and run' comments. If enough 'liberals' start talking like this, maybe there will be another massive counterculture movement starting soon. Maybe after we've lost more lives, wasted more taxpayer funds, and created more recruiting material for terrorists.

But hey, we have to 'leave with honor', right?

Waist deep in the big muddy...