Support the troops? Just don't bullshit them.

I was thinking about the George W. Bush/Richard Cheney school of historical analogies earlier today, and it struck me, according to them, we have two choices on the subject of Iraq:

1. Exit and it's another Vietnam.
2. Stay and use Korea as the model.

Leave aside, for the moment, that neither one makes any sense from a historical perspective, that's one hell of a choice, guys. Thanks.

Anyway, something to think about as your read something far more substantial. Ackerman (and Drum) are exactly right -- Democrats should not claim that getting out of Iraq is in support of the troops. We need to get out of Iraq because it's in the best interest of the United States. As for the troops, most of them don't want to leave until "the mission" is completed.

What Dems should be communicating to the troops (and Clinton touched on this last Sunday) is that they did accomplish the mission of toppling Saddam Hussein. There never was "a mission" to pacify Iraq in the aftermath because Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld never believed in "nation building" in the first place.