Go read Kevin Drum on Iraq and the Democrats:

...Our current policy in Iraq is a disaster that's virtually certain to fail — and Clinton, Biden, and Kerry know it. So why continue supporting it? The fact is that a timed withdrawal is probably good policy and good politics. On a substantive level it's the policy most likely to work, and on a political level it's the policy most likely to differentiate a future candidate from both the Bush administration and the gray hordes of the Democratic foreign policy establishment. It's also popular. Although only a third of Americans favor immediate withdrawal, nearly two-thirds want to see us withdraw within the next year...

Posted by Laura at August 18, 2005 09:14 AM