Political Games - Where the fuck’s the reset button?

Atrios has been documenting this for almost a year now, and this quote from Brownback is illustrative: “The date we set a deadline to pull out is the date al Qaeda will declare victory over the United States.” As I described in an earlier post, this mindset is childish in the extreme and acknowledges that even the most ardent supporters of this war think that “winning” is impossible in the next year or two, at least. For some reason I can’t possibly imagine, they don’t use the argument that “well, this war is going to take another three years, so who’s with me??” to the public, possibly because the 65% who oppose this war now would vote them all out of office. So instead they wrap it in the coded language of “we lose if we withdraw on date X”. Well I call bullshit. March 2008 would be 5 years of this war, and if we haven’t won by then we never will “win” in any meaningful way. Frankly, I think that statement is true if you substitute “2005″ for 2008, but that’s irrelevant at this point. Americans support the 2008 withdraw regardless of conditions on the ground, and it’s time for us to call the “leaving is losing” crowd on their bullshit.

For more of this, here are more examples of leaving is losing.

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