For too long, too many liberals and leftists said that immediate US withdrawal would make things worse for the Iraqis, so we should stay and try to fix Iraq; going a step further, some of them even condemned those who demanded immediate US withdrawal. What if American liberals and leftists had been all on the same page, all demanding immediate US withdrawal and organizing the kind of massive protests (demos, strikes, occupations, civil disobedience, riots, etc. for a month or so) that led to the revocation of the CPE in France? We might have still failed to move the White House, but we would never know that since too many liberals and leftists were committed to US forces staying in Iraq for too long and therefore we couldn't even try to organize such protests. -- Yoshie <http://montages.blogspot.com/> <http://mrzine.org> <http://monthlyreview.org/>