Bill Maher stated today on the Rachel Maddow Show: "As Long as their are Americans in Iraq there will be muslims who hate us.
I am one of those democrats who during the time Iraq war was starting was fine with what we were doing in Afghanistan. It seems as if the Republicans are trying to cast Democrats as against war.
You know we can argue about Obama wanting to send 2 more brigades into Afghanistan all we want. It is still far less then the investment in Iraq, and we still need Obama to get us out of Iraq.
That is not my focus of this diary. I merely want to remind us the simple fact that we were already in war with Afghanistan during the talks of Iraq. We were fighting those responsible for 9/11.
As a liberal democrat I feel as if this entire GOP campaign they are casting democrats as against war period. I dont think many Americans had a problem with us going to war after 9/11. I had doubts with Iraq when it was already being discussed in 2002 a year after Afghanistan. Yet I didn't speak out so much because my fears of doing so were quieted with the hemmorage of news coverage over Iraq's WMD's. Mc Cain still hasn't been clear about being against Iraq, the same way he hasn't been clear lately the way that the economic market needs some regulating to prevent these big company crashes from unbalancing us to big negative stock spikes. Can we throw in tax cuts for the middle class and returning the riches tax cuts back to the Clinton era? I love mud slinging with the truth.
Obama is for us to get out of Iraq. Bush and Iraq are for a 16 month "time horizen" for us to leave. If your a democrat or republican for Iraq like McCain is the honest question we need to press is why?
P.S. Kudos goes to Chris Matthews on Hardball today. I hardly ever watch his show since I work a swing shift. But now it comes up at 1am... and well he teared the show up today. His first hardball moment tearing up that republican congressman, "the buck stops here!" and trying to get that guy to say he supports Bush's policies. Then later discussing James Carville quote and in detail dissecting McCains gaffe as eloquently bad timing... If Chris stays like that on his show during these crucial 50 days left then I owe him some more attention.
P.P.S. Least you forget. Its the economy, stupid!