(This was a rally put on by A.N.S.W.E.R. who is affiliated with [and self-described] Marxist groups and partly funded by George Soros)
An article that should sober up some visitors here. Troops will stay in Iraq for about three years, and more will go to Afghanistan. So much for the “bring the troops home now” rhetoric (imported article):
....Now, however, the same hard-Left supporters who boosted Obama over early favorite Hillary Clinton for the nomination wonder whether Obama may be a hawk in sheep’s clothing:
Antiwar groups and other liberal activists are increasingly concerned at signs that Barack Obama’s national security team will be dominated by appointees who favored the Iraq invasion and hold hawkish views on other important foreign policy issues.
The activists are uneasy not only about signs that both Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) and Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates could be in the Obama Cabinet, but at reports suggesting that several other short-list candidates for top security posts backed the decision to go to war. …
Aside from Clinton and Gates, the roster of possible Cabinet secretaries has included Sens. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) and Richard G. Lugar (R-Ind.), who both voted in 2002 for the resolution authorizing President Bush to invade Iraq, though Lugar has since said he regretted it.
“It’s astonishing that not one of the 23 senators or 133 House members who voted against the war is in the mix,” said Sam Husseini of the liberal group Institute for Public Accuracy.
I’m not sure why they find this so surprising. Obama picked Joe Biden as his running mate, a man who also voted to authorize the Iraq War, and until the primaries had continued to argue for it. That selection should have sent a pretty strong signal that Obama either wanted to take his administration in a conventional, inside-the-Beltway direction, or that he needed a court jester to keep himself amused on slow days....
