Replies

You are correct the Dems to have a strategy and a plan for Iraq. They want to reuse the Vietnam template from 1969 to 1975. First gain control or as then keep control of the House where all money bills most originate. When enough momentum can be generated by the following actions begin pushing defunding actions for both the GWOT and Iraq.Second relentlessly criticize all administration actions on the GWOT and Iraq but be careful not to offer any real alternatives. The goal is to get the administration into a debate with itself and then move to exploit the usual opportunistic fissures this will cause. Eventually a small but loud mouthed Repub minority such as Chafee from RI will make common cause with the Rats and be used relentlessly to beat the Prez. Constantly harp on purported American misdeeds or blunders to sow defeatism and understate or deny any negative consequences of a precipitate US exit. Denigrate native supporters of the US in Iraq or Afghanistan as 'war lords', 'corrupt', 'drug traffickers, or 'incompetents' who it is inferred are hopeless or unworthy of US support and American deaths. Use the war as a tool to gain domestic political power and try to topple the administration through criminalizing the actions of major administration members. Impeachment of the SECDEF would be an example of this sort of thing. Actively assist in undermining US military operations through budgetary and legalistic constraints. The goal is a humiliating public defeat or rout such as the fall of Saigon redux. Immediately start yelling 'no recriminations' as the wave of Islamacist chaos rolls through the Mideast and deny that the enemies of the US are running amok around the world or that if they are dismiss it as internal 'unrest' and deny any importance. When a nuclear device is set off in the US hasten to blame the Repubs and Bush.