Certainly seems that way.
Pentagon concludes US defeated in key Iraqi provinceBy Bill Van Auken
14 September 2006
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Last Saturday, the Democrats’ 2004 presidential candidate, Massachusetts Senator John Kerry, delivered a speech denouncing the Bush administration for a “stand-still-and-lose strategy” and demanding that it send another 5,000 troops to Afghanistan to suppress mounting opposition to the US occupation in that country.
Kerry went on to call for the “redeployment” of US troops presently occupying Iraq, making it clear that Washington’s attempt to subjugate the oil-rich country should not be ended, but merely reorganized along more rational lines. The occupation would continue, according to Kerry’s proposal, with a “residual force to complete the training” of Iraqi security forces and “deter foreign intervention.” In other words, tens of thousands of American troops would remain to secure US domination of Iraq.
Former US President Bill Clinton sounded a similar note in a speech to a Jewish charity last week, declaring, “We need more troops.” He added, “We can’t practice hit-and-run democracy.”
The New York Times Wednesday quoted Democratic political strategist Jim Jordan as saying that, in the 2006 midterm elections, “it’s better for the party if we are defining ourselves as muscular and ready to defend the country.”
Underlying this electoral strategy is the commitment of both major parties to continued global militarism aimed at imposing US economic and political hegemony. In its search for “muscularity” and its call for “more troops,” the Democrats are positioning themselves to be the party that brings back the draft and launches American imperialism into new and even more terrible wars.
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2006/sep2006/iraq-s14_prn.shtml