Do you support the continued occupation of Iraq? Obama just said we WILL NOT WITHDRAW completely. [View All]

[Leopolds Ghost]

He said we must in all probability have a residual force in place to protect US Interests,
including "American civilians in Iraq" (read: oil companies and their mercenary forces.)

Complete reversal from what Kerry said in 2004.

Also note Kerry and Dean and especially Wes Clark (another former NATO commander and a sharp contrast to Jones) --
the entire spectrum of the anti-war movement -- have been completely frozen out of future Democratic party leadership.

Also note that, per Chuck Todd, Jones was a Republican pick -- insisted on by Gates and
McCain as a precondition for their involvement in an Obama administration -- and
that Jones is a close personal ally of McCain and Gates on national security matters --
in return for McCain being able to serve as the loyal opposition wing of the Republican
Party and have Obama's ear.

Finally note that Obama is in complete agreement with Hillary on Iraq and Iran and said so himself
at today's press conference. The Iraq war was apparently neither immoral nor illegal and Obama will
not even privately admit that he does not oppose it on principle, only on practicality; it is not
a matter of not saying it in public, but that the Democratic Party leadership flat out disagree with
the anti-war movement. Iran will be faced with a hard line in the sand military threat like Bush I did
to Saddam to prevent him from using nerve gas; and there will be no complete withdrawal from Iraq
to positions over the horizon as Kerry advocated in 2004.

This is an internal coup by the Democratic Party machine to restore the Washington Consensus.