Carrol Cox wrote:
Marvin Gandall wrote:
A spokesman for Al Sadr meanwhile told Agence France Presse early today that UN troops should be brought into Iraq to replace US forces, an unrealizable demand indicating the Mehdi Army is anticipating a fight.
Debate on demands of the anti-war movement has been frequently disrupted by the inability of too many leftists to acknowledge that UN involvement is an _unrealizable_ demand. The _only_ rational demand is immediate US withdrawal without conditions.
And immediate unconditional U.S. withdrawal is a realizable demand? It'd be news to me if it was. So why are some unrealizable demands preferable to other unrealizable demands?
Doug
Washington will withdraw its troops from Iraq, sooner or later. -- Yoshie
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