So Obama wants to end escalation and redeply troops.....

[musiclawyer]

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2007/Sen._Obama_offers_plan_to_stop_0130.html

....According to Raw Story. Me thinks the big prize in 2008 is going to whichever presidential candidate is perceived as actually causing the Iraq insanity to come to an end. I think Obama is one smart cookie, and has figured it out. I still see him as kind of a triangulator, so I'm not that warm to him yet. But this is good.

[jsamuel]

1. i think all the Dem candidates do... ? am I wrong?

[musiclawyer]

2. saying and doing (something meaningful)

are two very different things.

[jsamuel]

4. and so far none of them have "done" anything

so are we basically going on trust

Hillary, mostly talk, not sure what she really thinks
Obama, lengthy discussion with some point in there about redeployment, but also points about staying
Edwards, strong talk about leaving, but impotent since he is not in the Senate, so talk is cheap

[Lord Byron]

3. Kind of

You have to beware of those who equivocate. Talk is cheap in Washington. Some candidates like Clinton try to take both sides of the issue while riding on the wave of antiwar sentiment. They say things like, "I thought Saddam Hussein was a menace, but the Bush administration went in with no plan to win the peace." That of course, doesn't amount to much. It's blahblahblah. Don't fall for it.

[rodeodance]

5. my name is Murtha or Feingold.

[shadowknows69]

6. It can, and should be done sooner

NOW in fact. How do you ask someone be the last one to die for a mistake.

[BayCityProgressive]

7. he is saying the same thing as Hillary

he is just making it binding. Not that impressive from either of them. by 08 what will the death count be so that they can win office?