Letters to the Editor
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"Maybe I'm just cynical"
"All told, Power's comments are not unreasonable -- or all that surprising. She says, basically, that the situation in Iraq may change between now and when the next president is inaugurated, and that Obama's withdrawal plan is only a best case scenario. Maybe I'm just overly cynical, but I've always suspected that once any of the candidates was in office, their actual actions on Iraq might not reflect their campaign promises. (A retired general responsible for co-authoring the "surge" plan for Iraq, who's previously advised Hillary Clinton, recently made similar comments about Clinton's stance.) "
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Since no one can anticipate what Iraq will be like in a year, things could be remarkably improved or drastically worse, I think it's very responsible of BOTH candidates to say what they want to do now and then base the withdrawal plans on the conditions when they take office. Your quote of "maybe I'm just overly cynical" is right on the money.
You can't be so hammers down on these two people who are actually trying to find ways to end this clusterf*ck that George Bush & Dick Cheney got us in to.