American Conservative Magazine Calls For Withdrawl From Iraq!

[Solidarity]

May 10, 2004 issue
The American Conservative

The Best of Bad Choices

Given the Iraq War’s mounting costs and impossible goals, America should transfer sovereignty and come home.
By Christopher Layne

The administration’s Iraq policy is in shambles. Iraq has become a geopolitical humpty-dumpty that America cannot put back together, and the time has come for the United States to withdraw.

We now face a full-blown uprising against the occupation of Iraq. Events plainly belie the administration’s spin that order will soon be restored and that the revolt is just the work of a few Iraqi extremists and a handful of terrorists from other Middle Eastern states. Even top officials in the British government—America’s most loyal ally—understand that the administration’s take on Iraq is divorced from reality. As British Foreign Minister Jack Straw said, “The lid on the pressure cooker has come off. There is no doubt that the current situation is very serious and it is the most serious we have faced. It plainly is the fact today that there are larger numbers of people, and they are people on the ground, Iraqis, not foreign fighters, who are engaged in this insurgency.” Americans should not allow the administration’s “perception management” campaign—a fancy bureaucratic term for lying—to pull the wool over their eyes.
http://www.amconmag.com/2004_05_10/cover.html

[Killarney]

1. Wow. I'm really surprised how quickly "cut & run" is becoming popular

[Book Lover]

2. Not a surprise, given that

the true conservative position is always one of staying out of entangling foreign affairs. Too bad their tendency to shut up and fall in line have helped give the world this effing mess....

[proud patriot]

3. Wheeeeeeeee !

It's the only way for my sigline not to come true .

if the republican party is to save itself it must
rid itself of the bush boil .

[RobertSeattle]

4. If you can LIE yourself into a war, why can't you LIE yourself out of one?

Declare Victory.
Say "we tried"
Blame the Iraqis/Dems/Europeans
Exit stage left.

[Jacobin]

5. There is nothing "conservative" about Smirk

He is an extreme radical.

I'm just surprised its taken them so long to figure it out