[lbo-talk] 2004-8 (Out of Iraq)

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

John Bizwas bizwas at lycos.com, Mon Oct 4 04:29:25 PDT 2004:
>>[Kerry] I will make a flat statement. The United States of America 
>>has no long-term designs on staying in Iraq.
<snip>
>I think the context was he said that the US so far hadn't given a 
>clear timeline on leaving, which makes the Iraqs and Arabs think 
>angrily about permanent occupation. However, Kerry then proceeded 
>NOT to give any clear timeline himself.
<snip>
>(his [Kerry's] current one [plan for Iraq] seems to guarantee it 
>would be an election issue in 2008 were he to be president, how 
>quixotic!).

Whether George W. Bush or John Kerry gets elected, the next POTUS 
will have to run in 2007-8 on the record of four more years of wars, 
occupations, and economic woes.  Rather than expecting Bush and Kerry 
to spell out the deadline of US troop withdrawal from Iraq, which 
neither will, organizers, activists, and intellectuals on the left 
should be getting together on the local and national levels, hashing 
out our own timeline for rebuilding social movements ASAP and our own 
plan for independent political action on the electoral front in the 
next election cycle of 2006-8.  That will get us better prepared than 
in this election cycle.
-- 
Yoshie

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