Kerry on Huffington

[ProSense]

A Plan for Getting Iraq Up on Its Own Two Feet

We are now in the third war in Iraq in as many years. The first was against Saddam Hussein and his supposed weapons of mass destruction. The second was against terrorists whom, the administration said, it was better to fight over there than here. Now we find our troops in the middle of an escalating civil war.

Half of the service members listed on the Vietnam Memorial Wall died after America's leaders knew our strategy would not work. It was immoral then and it would be immoral now to engage in the same delusion. We want democracy in Iraq, but Iraqis must want it as much as we do. Our valiant soldiers can't bring democracy to Iraq if Iraq's leaders are unwilling themselves to make the compromises that democracy requires.

As our generals have said, the war cannot be won militarily. It must be won politically. No American soldier should be sacrificed because Iraqi politicians refuse to resolve their ethnic and political differences.

So far, Iraqi leaders have responded only to deadlines -- a deadline to transfer authority to a provisional government, and a deadline to hold three elections.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-kerry/a-plan-for-getting-iraq-u_b_18502.html

[whometense]

1. Responses are

predictably sickening. I hate that site, I really do. It's an a**hole magnet.

[beachmom]

2. It feels like those posters aren't even real!

I posted a comment and included a compliment about Arianna in it. Let's see if they publish me.

[kerrygoddess]

3. NY Times OP/ED with a different title

Glad it's over there - a lot of blogs are posting most or all of it.

[ProSense]

4. I know. That's good, it will pop up in more searches

http://news.yahoo.com/s/huffpost/20060405/cm_huffpost/018502

[kerrygoddess]

5. Absolutely!

The blog coverage has been great. More to come I suspect.

[karynnj]

6. I just put in a post , but they seem to take forever to put it up

They are the most ill informed of any of the blogs. It's like a "Worst of DU" summary.

[TayTay]

7. They are horrible at putting up comments

I sent something up this morning and it took forever. The haters get comments up right away. That really is a worthless site.

[karynnj]

8. I thought it might be that they trusted some people and they went

straight up. I only registered yesterday. I found this morning that DKos let me post - I guess cause I had the old (unused account).