[lbo-talk] The Iraq Policy of the U.S. Ruling Class

[Michael Smith]

On Monday 09 April 2007 00:37, andie nachgeborenen wrote:
>   the
> Dems won't withdraw completely because they're afraid
> of being Soft On Defense and Losing Iraq blah blah
> blah;

I know this view is widely shared, but I think it's mistaken. The 
Democratic Party as an institution(*) appears to be solidly behind 
the war -- this one, and the imminent next step into Iran.  It's 
not because they're afraid of being seen as soft; it's because 
they're not soft. 

Of course they know that the public is no longer for the war, and 
so they can profit from making opportunistic noises on the subject. 
But it's transparently fraudulent. 

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(*) Some individual Democrats may really be against it, but they 
are dissenters within their own party if so.