Reply #24: As much as the idea nauseates me [View All]

[jokerman93]

I fear the damage is already done on many levels.

I can understand, I think, why so many of the Dem candidates are accepting the US presence in Iraq as somehow irrevocable, and proposing policies based on that postulate.

If the Bush War-support industries hope to reshape the world order to ensure their own perpetuity and dominion in the coming century -- this is their last best shot at it. The cat's already out of the bag.

It's as if they've (we've) plunged a huge barbed spear into one of the hearts of the Arab world. You can't just rip it out now and run when you find you've made a grave mistake. That would cause uncontrollable bleeding.

I think the candidates know that Bush will not relent and by the Winter '05 we're going to be way past reversing course.

I feel I have to consider the proposals of the various candidates in that light. Regretably.

And I find myself wishing America was ready for Dennis Kucinich today.