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By Harold Meyerson | Wednesday, December 13, 2006 | The Washington Post

Meyerson examines the current front-running Republican candidates for the presidential election of 2008 and their positions on the Iraq War. His conclusion: none of the leading Republican candidates can afford to say anything about Iraq that would lose votes among the hard right faction of their party (about 20% of US voters, nearly all of them likely to vote Republican), despite the reality that the war is not winnable. That is, in Meyerson’s words:

“…If winning the Republican nomination requires the candidate to vow to stay in this war till the end of recorded time — and it may — the only way a Republican could actually win the White House would be to have somebody, not him, withdraw American forces before it’s time to vote. Bush would surely say this would happen over his dead body, but politically, Republican officials might have to choose between his dead body and their own.”…BS

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/12/AR2006121201351.html