The '08 Presidential Primaries and the War in Iraq

For being such an unpopular War, the Democratic Presidential hopefuls sure have a strange way of capitalizing on it. The 3 Democratic primary front-runners were stumping in Iowa this past week and staking out their respective positions on the War and no one, except for Bill Richardson, appeared to be advancing any sort of 'declare victory and pull-out immediately' scheme. The following from today's San Diego U-T:

"John Edwards, the former North Carolina senator, would keep troops in the country to intervene in an Iraqi genocide and be prepared for military action if violence spills into other countries.
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York would leave residual forces to fight terrorism and stabilize the Kurdish region in the north.
And Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois would leave a military presence of as-yet unspecified size in Iraq to provide security for U.S. personnel, fight terrorism and train Iraqis."

Now realizing that these are what John Edwards himself would probably call bumper sticker slogans for a bumper sticker War and also realizing that the devil is in the details..... but collectively taking the 3 candidates' basic plans and justifications for doing so..... is that not essentially what we are doing there right now and why we are doing it?

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http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20070812/news_1n12position.html