To: American Spirit who wrote (15836 ) 9/27/2007 8:17:12 PM From: Brumar89 Read Replies (1) | Respond to Clinton, Obama, Edwards Cannot Guarantee a Complete Pullout By 2013 Kucinich and Ron Paul will make the commitment. The leading Democratic White House hopefuls conceded Wednesday night they cannot guarantee to pull all U.S. combat troops from Iraq by the end of the next presidential term in 2013. of Illinois in the opening moments of a campaign debate in the nation's first primary state."It is very difficult to know what we're going to be inheriting," added Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York."I cannot make that commitment," said former Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina.an indicator of just how far General Petraeus' testimony moved the mood on Iraq against the Democrats' surrender line. Clinton, who has a vested interest in looking tough, has, at times taken the same realist approach, understanding the need to keep troops in Iraq beyond 2008, even though she's also at various times supported pulling funding for the troops (even voting for it) when she's sensed she's moved too far to the right. But Obama and Edwards are two darlings of the nutroots who have practically argued that an end to the war cannot come soon enough; the shift the current Iraq situation has forced will, I think, hurt them among the far-left anti-war faction. Edwards tried to qualify his position by saying that he wants to immediately withdraw 40-50,000 troops, but I sense that the thought of having even one U.S. soldier in Iraq five years from now makes the anti-war left positively ill. We saw how wildly unhinged the far-left got when Mrs. Edwards suggested that hey, maybe General Petraeus - a man who has devoted his life to the honest service of his country - didn't deserve to be called a traitor. Imagine how the far-left will be after it appears that Edwards et al actually bought into Petraeus' message.oxfordmedievalist.blogspot.com
