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One final question offered perhaps the most dramatic expression of the nation's discontent with Bush's second term. Asked whom they would support today in a rerun of the 2004 presidential election, 39% of registered voters picked Bush, whereas 49% said they preferred the man the president defeated only 17 months ago, Democratic Sen. John F. Kerry of Massachusetts.</blockquote>
Kerry recently came up with a deadline for the US exist from Iraq (published in the New York Times on 5 April 2006):
<blockquote>Now we must set another deadline to extricate our troops and get Iraq up on its own two feet.
Iraqi politicians should be told that they have until May 15 to put together an effective unity government or we will immediately withdraw our military. If Iraqis aren't willing to build a unity government in the five months since the election, they're probably not willing to build one at all. The civil war will only get worse, and we will have no choice anyway but to leave. <http://www.johnkerry.com/pressroom/news/news_2006_0405.html></blockquote>
That's the sort of deadline that he should have come up with _two years ago_, but he couldn't give up on the imperial venture while running for president.
-- Yoshie <http://montages.blogspot.com/> <http://mrzine.org> <http://monthlyreview.org/>