Presidential Candidates and Iraq

Jim Hoagland wrote in the Washington Post that all the presidential candidates have an Iraq problem:

"Surviving Republican candidates overshoot the runway in the other direction, attributing to recent U.S. gains a permanence that has still to be established. The Democrats clearly will not repeat that mistake. They must also reject Bush's habit of ignoring Iraqi realities and responsibilities and pretending that the United States alone has the power to impose its will as the end point of this conflict."

Promises They Can't Keep. All these years the President has been talking about a victory without ever explaining what it was we were to win. Now McCain wants to follow blithely down that same path. Clinton or Obama will get us out because we neither had business invading nor did we do anything but bungle our way throughout Iraq. However, if anyone thinks it will be done easily, that we will extricate ourselves from Bush's bog without bruising ourselves, then they are fools.