I have no way of knowing lurkers' opinions, but for a longest time a majority of people on this mailing list kept saying that Washington couldn't and shouldn't just withdraw US troops, we must arrange for substitute peace-keepers first (as if anyone wanted to go in!), we must reconstruct Iraq first (as if we ever would!), we must support Sistani, et al.'s call for elections first (God only knows why anyone thought that was a good idea), and so on and so forth. It was the same way at the steering committee of United for Peace and Justice. Only a few unreconstructed Marxists thought that was all BS.
On 5/29/07, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> I said from the first that opponents
> of the war in the US should take their cue from what Iraqis want
Gauged by opinion polls taken under the occupation, no less, as if such polls had anything to do with truth. -- Yoshie