The Republicans debate
The winner of Sunday's Republican presidential debate in Iraq? Barack Obama campaign spokesman Bill Burton, who responded to the Republicans' criticism of Obama's vow to take against "high-value terrorist targets" in Pakistan with or without the help of President Gen. Pervez Musharraf by saying that the GOP candidates "want to keep 160,000 American troops in the middle of a civil war" but "couldn't agree that we should take out Osama bin Laden if we had him in our sights."As for the rest of the pack:
Abortion: Responding to an automated phone call in which Sam Brownback challenges his anti-abortion bona fides, Mitt Romney declared that he was for abortion rights before he was against them. "I was pro-choice," he said. "I am pro-life." When Brownback pointed to a 1994 video clip on YouTube in which Romney says, "I believe that abortion should be safe and legal in this country," Romney said: "Ah, that's the -- consider the source." A moment later, however,
Iraq: Except for Ron Paul, who said that the United States should be able "come back" from the war just as easily as we "marched in," the GOP candidates generally advocated staying the course in Iraq. Although even the president's military men now seem reluctant to say that the United States is "winning" in Iraq, John McCain saw fit to declare, "We are winning, we must win, and we will not set a date for surrender, as the Democrats want us to do." Duncan Hunter complained that, in "the Democrat debate," "Not a single Democrat candidate paused in their rush for the exit to say to our Marines, 'Good job. You guys are fighting and achieving, with blood, sweat and tears, what this country needs.' In fact, in the most recent Democratic debate, each of the three leading Democratic candidates offered words of praise or thanks for the troops serving in Iraq.
Iraq, again: When Ron Paul noted that "neoconservatives promoted many, many years before it was started," that there was "no al-Qaida in Iraq" before the war, that there were "no weapons of mass destruction," and that the same people who now predict disaster if we leave Iraq who predicted the war would be "duck soup" in the beginning, McCain interrupted him -- twice -- to ask, "Have you forgotten about 9/11?"
-- Tim Grieve
http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/
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