Iraq

[laconicsax]

Poll question: Iraq

We can all yell at each other until we're blue in the face (until our fingers are bleeding?) about who has the 'higher ground' with regards to Iraq and we have the full power of the Internet to make a case for one candidate or another.

My question is this:

What's more important right now, and which will be more important on January 20th 2009?

How we got into Iraq and how we stayed there, or how we get out of Iraq and when?

Edited by popular demand to include the third choice.

[laconicsax]

1. self kick

[chknltl]

2. Need a category for both.

Taking care of both is planetary triage. Getting out prevents more deaths now. Trying the bastards who put us there for that crime and the further crimes they perpetrated while we were there may hinder future such fiasco's and will help heal a wounded world. I see both as equal and equally necessary.

[laconicsax]

4. Good point, poll's been updated.

[chknltl]

5. Thanks, voted: "both" eom

[Occam Bandage]

3. Both are necessary for presenting a compelling, unified message against John McCain.

[Swamp Rat]

6. Both... Iran

[MadBadger]

7. To me in the primary, its how we got in

I think any dem will get out and in fact there plans are strikingly similar. But judgement does matter.

[GoldieAZ49]

12. based on the exchange between McCain and Obama we are not leaving Iraq

as long as al-qaeda is there.

[New Dawn]

8. Both.

[TexasObserver]

9. How we got there is more important, because it foretells whether we will make such further mistakes.

We know Obama will get us out. We don't know that Hillary won't be duped again.

[VenusRising]

10. The Kyl-Lieberman vote was a good indicator

that she could be duped again, IMHO.

[FrenchieCat]

11. We shouldn't have ever gotten in.

How and when we get out are both also very important....at this point.

[gravity]

13. We don't have a time machine

So we should focus all of our efforts to getting out of Iraq first.

[donheld]

14. Getting out is quite important, but

We must be damn sure we will never be duped into this kind of thing again. So both are important.

[Breeze54]

15. OUT OF IRAQ NOW AND BRING THEM ALL HOME!!!!

It won't really matter in the GE, imho.

[FlyingSquirrel]

16. Both are equally important to prevent another similar occurrence in the future

eom

[jlake]

17. We should have never gone into Iraq. But since we did the important

question is how and when to get out.... it is all that we can control now..... the best solution wins.

[BringBigDogBack]

18. Definitely both.