Comments on: Setting the Iraq stage http://www.eyeon08.com/2007/09/04/setting-the-iraq-stage/ Covering the 2008 election Tue, 02 Dec 2008 23:18:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 by: sampo http://www.eyeon08.com/2007/09/04/setting-the-iraq-stage/#comment-35452 Tue, 04 Sep 2007 19:48:52 +0000 http://www.eyeon08.com/2007/09/04/setting-the-iraq-stage/#comment-35452 romney's 3 point plan: 1. surge 2. support 3. standby we're in #1 now, we've been doing #2 for years. he really lost me on the "standby" part. it sounds exactly like a poll-tested euphemism for pullout/cut-and-run. since (at any moment) he can easily conclude we've completed 1 and 2 willard can and will be a cut and runner whenever it's politically expedient. so for only mccain has convinced me he'd rather lose a campaign than lose a war. romney’s 3 point plan:

1. surge
2. support
3. standby

we’re in #1 now, we’ve been doing #2 for years. he really lost me on the “standby” part. it sounds exactly like a poll-tested euphemism for pullout/cut-and-run. since (at any moment) he can easily conclude we’ve completed 1 and 2 willard can and will be a cut and runner whenever it’s politically expedient.

so for only mccain has convinced me he’d rather lose a campaign than lose a war.

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