Reply #8: He's talking common sense about a huge, long term problem we

[Gloria]

have in the world, created by Bushco.

"Pulling out" is dangerous for our troops, Iraq, the region, the world. It is not that simple to do that without ongoing efforts on other tracks at the same time.

You have to begin restoring DIPLOMACY as an accepted means of approaching problems. By doing this, you increase the chance that a pullout can be put into place that doesn't jeopardize the lives of our troops and those of the Iraqi people any more than we have to.

One of Clark's ideas is for a regional conference of countries in the region to start figuring out what the hell is going on. Interestingly, there are signs that they are already talking about doing this. If we had a decent leader who would capitalize on this growing impetus and help it along, we'd be in much better shape and troops would be home faster.

Bush is ready to mess with Syria, Iran is swirling around in the mix. This guy is ready to make the whole region blow up. Do you think a "quick" pullout without full consideration of regional stresses would actually solve all these problems we've created?