Reply #74: Your man Kerry has cornered the market on hazy. anyway here's a real plan: [View All]

[confludemocrat]

"The following is my detailed plan to quickly bring all U.S. troops home from Iraq:
from the Kucinich web site:

The United States must ask the United Nations to manage the oil assets of Iraq until the Iraqi people are self-governing.
The United Nations must handle all the contracts: No more Halliburton sweetheart deals, No contracts to Bush Administration insiders, No contracts to campaign contributors. All contracts must be awarded under transparent conditions.
The United States must renounce any plans to privatize Iraq. It is illegal under both the Geneva and the Hague Conventions for any nation to invade another nation, seize its assets, and sell those assets. The Iraqi people, and the Iraqi people alone must have the right to determine the future of their country's resources.
The United States must ask the United Nations to handle the transition to Iraqi self-governance. The UN must be asked to help the Iraqi people develop a Constitution. The UN must assist in developing free and fair elections.
The United States must agree to pay for what we blew up.
The United States must pay reparations to the families of innocent Iraqi civilian noncombatants killed and injured in the conflict.
The United States must contribute financially to the UN peacekeeping mission.
The United Nations, through its member nations, will commit 130,000 peacekeepers to Iraq on a temporary basis until the Iraqi people can maintain their own security.
UN troops will rotate into Iraq, and all U.S. troops will come home.
The United States will abandon policies of "preemption" and unilateralism and commit to strengthening the UN.
"I am working tirelessly to take America in a new direction, to gain approval of this plan at the United Nations, and to put it into action, bring all U.S. troops home in 90 days. Only if the United States takes a new direction will we be able to persuade the UN community to participate. Such a new direction is reflected in this 10-point plan.

If that's "out now" fine, but it doesn't read that way to me. He's compromising with the fact that we should get out NOW and stand ready to financially aid a plan that the rest of the world would come up with. Our chance for leadership on this is lost and deservedly so.

Now where's the Kerry plan? We just get, "I've been duped" (BS), "complete the mission" (what is this noble mission?), and withdraw sometime about end 2006, based on what, really, a wish, a hope things get better? No mention of it being fundamentally morally wrong, just wrong place, wrong time, whatever the fuck that means. And no forthrightness about the reparations we must pay. Why not? He's still positioning and praying his "fine tuning" of his line will work this time. It won't.