Just mention, "Iraq," on this page and the comments start to fly... stay, go, surge, withdraw, etc, etc. After spending most of the first hour today talking about what life is like in Iraq, we'll step back and talk with Francis Fukuyama here in Washington, D.C. He argued in an op-ed in the Los Angeles Times that, "the surge was the last military card we had to play, and now our bluff will soon be called.... We need to start figuring out how to leave this zombie-like zone." So, is it time to leave Iraq? And, if so, how do you minimize the costs?
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I'm wondering why Tommy Thompson's plan for Iraq doesn't get more "play" amongst the media. I'm actually a lifelong Democrat supporting Obama but everytime I hear Thompson's plan (from him on Cspan only) I think....this guy makes alot of sense. Give everybody in Iraq a stake in a successful peaceful Iraq and this could be a way out for the US.
I get sad about this. President Bush has made the comment that we can't set a timeline because then the terrorists can wait us out. Doesn't that just doom us to staying forever?
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