Letters to the Editor
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Don't Buy that, Hutman
Yeah, if Obama's sole position on Iraq was that silly line he repeats in debates ad nauseam - "we will get out as carefully as we were careless going in" - then there'd be no contradiction. But he has a specific plan, and Power says:
he will of course not rely upon some plan that he's crafted as a presidential candidate.
Now, if he doesn't plan to rely on the plan he's publicly hawking, what's the point of the plan? Does that make any sense, having a plan that you don't actually plan on implementing or "relying upon"? This is like if Hillary's health adviser came out and said, "of course, due to the opposition her plan would face in Congress and all the minutiae we haven't considered yet, we don't actually plan on using or even relying on the healthcare plan she's currently proposing, though we do have some vague commitment to make healthcare more affordable. The plan she's pushing is just a best-case scenario." No contradiction?