Thursday, August 18, 2005

Republicans for withdrawal

There's another aspect to this whole Iraq withdrawal issue: if Democrats don't become advocates for withdrawal, Republicans eventually will. And then where will we be?

There are already rumblings of this happening (Link courtesy this dKos post).

Earlier the same day in Lincoln, an elderly woman asked about Iraq. "Why are we there in the first place?" she asked.

On Tuesday in the central Nebraska town of Lexington, after a meeting with law enforcement officials on drug problems, three sheriffs expressed serious doubts about what the United States was doing in Iraq and whether it could succeed.

[Republican Senator Chuck] Hagel, a Vietnam veteran, acknowledged the U.S. military presence was becoming harder and harder to justify. He believes Iraq faces a serious danger of civil war that would threaten Middle East stability, and said there is little Washington can do to avert this.

"We are seen as occupiers, we are targets. We have got to get out. I don't think we can sustain our current policy, nor do I think we should," he said at one stop.

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