[Peace-discuss] Re: [Peace] De-escalate, investigate, troops out now! - This Saturday Feb. 3, 2-4 pm

[Morton K. Brussel]

First impression: Highly skeptical; there are too many caveats in his  
proposal…. He's straddling on this issue as he has on most, although  
I agree that it seems that the antiwar movement is weighing on him.  
We should ask more of him.

--mkb

On Feb 1, 2007, at 2:29 PM, Stuart Levy wrote:

> Hey, what do you all think of Obama's recent announcement that he's
> actually calling for a pullout of combat troops from Iraq,
> with specific completion date (of early next year), in line with the
> ISG's proposal?  Commentary, and link to Obama's announcement at
>
>     http://www.commondreams.org/views07/0201-25.htm
>
> If (cynically) he's doing this because that's the way the
> political winds are blowing, then I say more power to him.
> If the people of this country have better sense than most of
> their representatives, then why complain if the representatives
> simply start listening to the population?
>
>    Stuart

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