Democrat Candidates Begin to Shift and Admit we will be in Iraq for Years

  First we had this article in the New York Times saying that the Iraq war may be winnable after all, now we have this article from the same paper telling us we may need to stay in Iraq for years.

Even as they call for an end to the war and pledge to bring the troops home, the Democratic presidential candidates are setting out positions that could leave the United States engaged in Iraq for years.

  So it now appears that the Democrats are starting to cut back on the rhetoric all of a sudden and the New York Times is helping them to do it by letting the anti-war left know (slowly but surely) that the Democrats may not be able to deliver on yet another campaign pledge. But this isn’t just another campaign promise, this is THE campaign promise.

  Could it be, as I feel, that the Democrats now realize that they have gone to far with their promises to end the war? They knew that they were never going to be able to end the war without committing political suicide, but now they could be committing suicide by turning away from the far left. They are caught in the middle and are trying to get out.

These positions and those of some rivals suggest that the Democratic bumper-sticker message of a quick end to the conflict — however much it appeals to primary voters — oversimplifies the problems likely to be inherited by the next commander in chief.

  Exactly, it was too easy for them to criticize the war, and call for withdrawal when they were in the minority. Now they have gotten what they wished for and it is a bitter taste. They could spew their nonsense without fear of repercussions, now that they have to avoid the repercussions of cutting off war funds they don’t know haw to handle it. They are trying to oppose the war to satisfy their base, and let the base down easy by letting it slip out that they cannot or will not actually end the war.

Democrats are increasingly taking the position, in televised debates and in sessions with voters across the country, that ending a war can be as complicated as starting one.

  This really is entertaining, I just wish it wasn’t such a serious issue. I am enjoying listening to them twist in the wind, covering both sides of the war issue. They are proving what many of us already knew, but that many people didn’t want to believe, that the Democrats really had no intention to bring a quick end to the war. The Democrats won the battle they were interested in, the battle for control of congress.