"None" of the troops?

Sounds like somewhere much closer to the first choice than the second, to me.

Now...I do not know about you, but I would guess that a good 80% to 85% of the people in this country depend on automobiles, buses or other petroleum-driven modes of transport  to get to work and generally deal with ife as it has been handed (forced upon?) us.

Now...we are stuck with an economy that will bust if oil prices climb TOO high.

How high?

That's up to the professional disaster gamers to figure out. She's got her estimates, the others have theirs. On both sides of the coming election. One thing that is holding back the mainstreamers from declaring "Out of Iraq, Out of the Middle East Day" as the very first holiday after they get elected and sworn in is the fear that if we do that...totally, completely...a power vacuum will result which will be quickly filled by Islamic states and/or Russia and/or China and/or India.

And the U.S. will face a depression on the level of the '30s if not worse.

Only NOW..."Them domestic injuns got repeatin' rifles, Kemo Sabe!"

Baghdad on the Hudson, Baghdad oin the Potomac, and Baghdad on the Great Lakes is not at ALL out of the question if a crash happens.

THEN what?

UH OH!!!

So...she tapdances.

Can't blame her.

i can't, anyway.

She hopes to be able to tapdance through ALL of the minefields and eventually get to safety...get the U.S., and best of luck to her as far as I am concerned.

Best of luck to whoever wins.

Obama's cresting now.

Do you think that HE will withdraw all American military forces from the region?

PFFFFFTTTT!!!

All those nuke subs sitting on the bottom of the Mediterranean with their missiles pre-targeted on every major Islamic city?

Please.

ANYBODY who tried to get that to happen would encounter their own Dealy Plaza before the month was up. And they ALL know this.

So...they all choose their own tapdance.

Lie now, pay later? (Obama, Edwards)

Prevaricate now and leave your options as free as you can possibly leave them? (Clinton)

Tell the truth now and not get elected? (Kucinich)

Not much to choose from...

I think that they all have the interests of the American people at heart. (Well...maybe not Edwards. I don't think he can see past his own mirror, to tell you the truth.)
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And they have all come to different conclusions on how best to do this..

POLITICALLY-driven conclusions.

We shall see who concludes the best.

Soon enough.

Later...

AG

Goodness had nothing to do with it, dearie.-Mae West

That's what the primaries are really about.

They are an audition.

If she fails...Obama picks up the slack.

He will learn on the run.

Like JFK.

Only...luckier, I hope.

AG

Goodness had nothing to do with it, dearie.-Mae West