Here’s a clue Gordon, Democrats will not vote for you even if you adopt their talking points. Earl, you’ve unintentionally made a case for STAYING in Iraq. I realize it was unintended, but I know you think you’re the smartest guy in D.C., so I’m sure you’ll figure out how to spin it.
Here’s part of Earl’s blog entry here: “Ultimately, we will leave, ultimately, it will be extraordinarily unpleasant, if not awful. The Bush administration’s mismanagement has broken Iraq and American public is not willing to allow the further sacrifice o four brave soldiers–who have done all that can be expected of them –and the waste of even more of our scarce resources,so in demand at home and in other places around the world. [the US apparently isn’t worth our time but someplace else IS?]
“This is now about making the best of a bad situation; we are going to leave Iraq before it’s fixed [Earl’s emphasis]. It will be painful for everybody: the innocent Iraqi victims who will get caught up in the maelstrom, as well as Americans who will be less safe for years, if not generations, to come.

Smith declares Iraq civil war and wants to bail:
“I, for one, am at the end of my rope when it comes to supporting a policy that has our soldiers patrolling the same streets in the same way being blown up by the same bombs day after day. That is absurd…
But, we have no business being a policeman in someone else’s civil war. So I welcome the Iraq study group but I’d rather do it quicker rather than later. Whatever it is, it will not be pretty. I am looking for answers but the current course is unacceptable to this U.S. Senator….
I’m afraid rather than leveling with the American people saying this was going to be a decade-long conflict because of the ancient hatreds that exist in that part of the world, that we tried to win with too few troops in too fast a time.let us fight the war on terror more intelligently than we have, because we have fought this war in a very lamentable way.
I would have never voted for this conflict had I reason to believe that the intelligence we had was not accurate. It was not accurate, but that is history. Now we must find a way to make the best of a terrible situation at a minimum of loss of life for our brave fighting men and women.”