Reply #8: Political posturing [View All]

[PATRICK]

makes the discussion simpler. Hagel is not poised to be in the Bush team inner circle on supporting the war. Keeping bases and oil contracts will probably still stick to his plate along with Nixonian ingenuity in redefining defeat. McCain has chosen the close in approach and wants to make the Bush circle war commitment into something or other good again. His is the Hubert Humphrey approach without principles. The other hopeless contenders from NY are waiting for the whole conservative mess to implode. The Bush dynasty is running out of crony ham sandwiches that would satisfy their need to plug the gap until some other Bush gets in. If you think Iraq is a mess, consider the plight of the GOP civil war that tries to form a chorus.

Lord knows what any honest GOP official(Diogenes, were are you?) really thinks about a solution. The problem the GOP contenders face is making the war harmless or work for them again NOT in solving the problem over there. That kind of perspective is totally false and fruitless and taking their ideas seriously very damaging to anyone tackling the real problem. The Democrats should concentrate on their own honest plans and not surrendering any initiative to the party pre-occupied with its shattered electoral image no matter what task cries to be done.