Read the news, John

The old Republican Party line is that anyone suggesting a timeline for withdrawl of US troops from the war against Iraq wants to surrender to the terrorists. This has always been absolutely ridiculous, but nonetheless, it was the party line and was repeated over and over as an absolute truth. Recently however, the GOP leadership has finally listened to the experts on the ground and the Iraqi people about what the best course of action is. Amazingly, it falls exactly into line with what Barack Obama has been saying all along – we need to withdraw US troops from Iraq so they can be redeployed to fight the war on terror.

John McCain does not seem to have gotten the message, though. Just yesterday he was ridiculing Obama’s plan as backwards and admitting defeat in Iraq. Uh John – dubya and your party leadership, whom you fall in line with 90% of the time with, just switched to that position. The majority of Americans and vast majority of Iraqis also want the occupation to end. Does that mean you believe that you are backwards and admitting defeat, or your party is, or both?