Todays annoucment about withdrawing troops from Iraq by December 2011 is a welcome development. Barack Obama must be sitting back with a sense of satisfaction for two reasons.
First off, this war now has an exit strategy and he know that when he goes for his second term this wont be an issue. Secondly this vindicates what he has been saying all along that there should be a timetable for withdrawal funny how a man who most of his detractors labelled as not qualified for the job has got another war strategy right.
BUT i am not surprised, this terrible war has seen the establishment who are meant to know more about issues of war and peace than the rest of us get it terribly wrong. It is these Neo-cons who labelled anti war protestors as anti-american or liberal nutjobs who are now having to eat there words.
This is not an occassion for an "I told you so" because with so much death for so little reward there is nothing to be smug about.
I will finish with this thought, The annoucment today symbolises the past 8 years of failure as well as sheer incompetence. I speak as somebody who liked Bush and like many others i was let down by his broken promises, I watched W. over the weekend and it struck me when Bush writes his biography he should call it "The West Wing in wonderland"
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