Monday, January 14, 2008

What We Have Done

If you vote for Obama you are complicit in this. If you vote for McCain this is what *YOU* want.



There are three candidates in the race for president that are left who will bring troops home starting day one. They are Ron Paul, Dennis Kucinich, and Mike Gravel.

What do YOU want?

15 comments:

Crystal Starr said...

This is such a compelling video Scott. Thanks for sharing it.

Laura said...

Kucinich is actually the candidate closest to my personal political beliefs and I've been mulling over voting for him in the primary since Obama is pretty much the democratic shoo-in in Illinois anyway.

I'm not sure though, if bringing all the troops home on day one is the best approach in the long term. I do want to see withdrawl plans from the new president starting day 1, and an incremental withdrawl strategy. But I also don't want it to be reminiscent of the fall of Saigon where we just split. I'd also like to see some of those troops re-deployed to Afghanistan... a country that actually WANTS our help and that we abandoned for the second time in a generation.

Crystal Starr said...

YAY! Ron Paul got second today!!

Crystal Starr said...

Really looking forward to that Empire post.....

Godwhacker said...

Statist candidate A
Statist candidate B

See America, you do have a choice!

btw: Ron Paul.

Anonymous said...

Boy I am not sure either whether we should split right away. But Scott, why pick on just Obama - at least he was against the war from the very beginning, you should include Hilary Clinton in this too!

S.M. Elliott said...

Hilary does say she'll bring the troops home ASAP. Now, as for whether any of these candidates will actually do that or not, I don't know. It's much easier said than done, as the Dems found out.

Anonymous said...

hhmm.. I missed the last debate. she must have changed her mind...that's good because previously she had said it would take about a year to bring them home.

Crystal Starr said...

That's what I thought too Missy.

Scott said...

Obama and Clinton have both stated that they could not commit to pulling all troops out of Iraq prior to the end of their first term. That's 2013.

Scott said...

Oh, and Missy, I didn't mean to exclude Clinton from this post, it's just that she's generally not looked at as an "anti-war" candidate like Obama is. Obama prides himself on change.

S.M. Elliott said...

Ah yeah, you're right...Hilary only mentioned bringing troops home *eventually*. What an overwhelming commitment. ;P

Pete Deichmann said...

Hey Scott,

Been checking out your blog, nice work. Do you mind if I link back to you?

Weird

Scott said...

Of course you can, some day I might even write here again. :)

Crystal Starr said...

^ Ha!