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http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0824-30.htm
What follows is an excerpt. I'd strongly suggest reading the entire piece. Its much better than anything I hear from the bunch currently running the Democratic Party (Hillary, Biden, Reid, Pelosi, Dean etc, etc)
The one place I'd disagree is that rather than a leader who is willing to say he made a mistake, I'd rather have one who got it right to begin with.
Gary Hart --
To stay silent during such a crisis, and particularly to harbor the thought that the administration's misfortune is the Democrats' fortune, is cowardly. In 2008 I want a leader who is willing now to say: "I made a mistake, and for my mistake I am going to Iraq and accompanying the next planeload of flag-draped coffins back to Dover Air Force Base. And I am going to ask forgiveness for my mistake from every parent who will talk to me."
Further, this leader should say: "I am now going to give a series of speeches across the country documenting how the administration did not tell the American people the truth, why this war is making our country more vulnerable and less secure, how we can drive a wedge between Iraqi insurgents and outside jihadists and leave Iraq for the Iraqis to govern, how we can repair the damage done to our military, what we and our allies can do to dry up the jihadists' swamp, and what dramatic steps we must take to become energy-secure and prevent Gulf Wars III, IV and so on."