Spencer Ackerman has a great post concerning the Iraqi government's desire to negotiate a timetable for withdrawl of US troops from the country. An Iraqi spokesman even said that the pullout could be completed by 2011 or 2012, which is consitent with the Obama plan. Now this presents and unprecedented oppurtunity for Obama to absolutely hammer McCain on Iraq. McCain has said in the past, as has George W. Bush, that if the Iraqis ask us to leave (or establish a timetable for an eventual pullout) we must do so. Ackerman has a brilliant idea as well, Obama should challenge McCain to endorse a timetable:
If he accepts, he's a flip-flopper; if he declines, he's an imperialist. There's no downside here.
Exactly! Even McCain's pious followers in the media would have trouble spinning a development such as this. Let's hope the Obama campaign has the balls to do it!
Photo used courtesy of Flickr user strader July 25, 2006
