Hey,
Has anyone noticed that suddenly there’s an emerging US Admin-Iraqi government consensus on a full pullout by 2011? Antiwar people should be happy, but I haven’t seen it said that this could be a big, big problem for Obama. So much of his base is the mad-about-the-war crowd. What if it doesn’t make a difference over there in the sandbox if he’s in office? Even if he starts pulling out on inauguration day, 2011 is probably about his own timetable, even if he says it’s something faster.
Off topic: the closing ceremony was some collection of weird-ass stunts by men in alien suits. And Jackie Chan singing pop (seriously).
E.H.
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