Kerry’s Iraq Choices: “If Kerry calls for downsizing our occupation force by so much as one buck private, the Republicans will go calculatedly berserk. He’ll be yet another Massachusetts wuss and, worse yet, a geo-strategic flip-flopper — backing off his current stance of maintaining or, if need be, increasing our force in Iraq….

But say Kerry keeps to his current position, choosing to maintain or boost troop levels depending on the level of chaos that Iraq is suffering. Behind either of those doors stands Ralph Nader, with a new and more compelling raison d’être for his candidacy than he’s had thus far. Nader now calls for withdrawing U.S. forces from Iraq within six months — a position that recent polling shows is shared by more than 40 percent of the electorate, including, surely, tens of millions of Democrats and left-leaning independents.” — Harold Meyerson, Washington Post