DEMOCRATS LABEL IRAQ 'STRATEGIC BLUNDER'

Source: MSNBC

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- The Democratic Party will formally call the decision to go to war with Iraq a “strategic blunder” in its 2008 platform, according to a draft debated Saturday. The party also included language on Iraq withdrawal echoed by its presumptive nomine, Barack Obama, as it expressed a desire to “be as careful getting out of Iraq as we were careless getting in.”

The party will also add calls for universal healthcare coverage, while keeping the current employer-centric system.

A drafting committee unveiled the 44-page platform for the national party, encompassing both traditional Democratic values and the plans unveiled by Obama.

The party’s draft differs from four years ago on Iraq, when it said “people of good will disagree about whether America should have gone to war in Iraq.” This time, reflecting a shift in American public opinion, the committee hopes to emphasize that “Iraq was a diversion from the fight against the terrorists who struck us on 9-11” while reiterating complaints about the war’s execution. It also echoes Obama’s calls to remove one to two military brigades each month.



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Strategic Blunder my ass. More like purposeful criminal action.

Then why did so many Democrats support it and then continue to fund it?

They made a strategic decision to go along with the IWR and sign on. I am fairly certain Hillary considers it a "Strategic Blunder"...

"strategic blunder" is wimping out to the nth degree . . . have they no shame? . . .

alot of voters supported it and they don't want to attack them. "Strategic blunder" puts the onus on Bush.

universal health care coverage supposed to mean?

I had health insurance through my employer, then got waylaid by an aortic dissection and had to have open-heart surgery. I was placed on long-term medical leave, and when the time came for updating or making changes to my insurance plan(October 2006), somehow I didn't receive the benefits package in time to get it back to them to meet their deadline. So, of course, they canceled my insurance. "Can't do anything about it until next October," they told me. Come the next October, their story became "Well, you have a preexisting condition, we can't reinstate you."

Somebody saved the corp some money on that one, I guess. Hope they got a bonus...I worked there for six years and never did.

I guess my question is: if it is the position of the Democratic Party to provide health care for everyone, why involve the employers in it? Especially if one is unemployed...like I am now(that wasn't supposed to be part of the deal, either--I figure I kind of got "disappeared," as far as they were concerned).

seems more appropriate.

fuckers.