Top Dem Candidates: We will Get Troops Out Sometime Before 2013
If you caught the debates last week then the following is sure to resonate with you…
(WASHINGTON) — The leading Democrat presidential candidates joined forces this week to immediately call for the eventual pull out of U.S. forces from Iraq on a time line that could have all of the troops home as early as the end of the second term of the president who succeeds the next one. “We cannot let one more brave American patriot die while refereeing a meaningless foreign civil war,” said Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-NY. “As I’ve said before, if George Bush won’t bring the troops home now, when I’m president, I will.
Of course, by then ‘now’ will have passed and what ‘nTopow’ will mean then is hard to tell now. It depends on what the meaning of ‘now’ is.”
Sen. Barack Obama said, “This war never should have started, that’s why I voted against it in the first place. Now that it’s under way, I have called for the president to bring the troops home. However, it would be irresponsible of me to say whether, as president, I would bring the troops home before 2012, because things look different when one is commander in chief. At this time, as a senator running for president, I think it’s irresponsible for Bush to leave the troops in Iraq, but that could change the day I take office by virtue of the office I take and through no fault of my own.”
Former Sen. John Edwards apologized again for voting in favor of the war, but added that he’ll “never, never, never apologize” for calling for a troop pullout today.
“What seems like the right thing to do now, is the right the thing to do,” said Mr. Edwards, “I know that I’m not wrong about this like I was wrong about voting for the war. So, I’m confident that this president should bring our troops home now. However, I cannot make commitments on behalf of a future commander in chief who might turn out to be me.”
In a joint news release, the three Democrat rivals said, “We know the troops can’t come home now, or anytime in the near future, but that doesn’t mean we should stop calling on the president to do that which none of us would do if we were sitting in his chair right now.” — as reported by satirist Scott Ott / ScrappleFace
Scott Ott may have been on top of his satire writing the above piece, but it only brushes the surface of the hostility that many on the liberal left are feeling towards the top three candidates of their party just about now. For all their rhetoric of the last six months, each one is beginning to back pedal from their previous positions. Who knows, maybe Kucinich may turn out to be the MoveOn.Org candidate of choice… What a hoot that would be !!
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