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Kerry has stated throughout the campaign that the US can't afford to "lose" in Iraq and pulling out under the current circumstances would be wrong. Do you think he's telling the truth or is he lying?

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I think its a mixture of the two. He probably does believe that pulling out under the current circumstances would be a bad idea. But he probably understands that the day may come when it becomes necessary to pull out, leave a shaky puppet regime in place with little long-term viability, and watch from the sidelines as it falls someday, with God knows what replacing it. Kerry as much as anybody probably knows that the Vietnam analogy here - both in terms of our inability to win "hearts and minds" while blowing things up and the political impact of growing domestic disatisfaction - is becoming increasingly valid.

But how is that really different from Bush's approach?

I will say, too, that I would turn the lie detector on the Bush administration regarding point #2.