Failed presidential candidate George McGovern appeared with Barack Obama at a rally Friday, two weeks before South Dakota's last-in-the-nation presidential primary. McGovern is an anti-war politician who is most remembered for his 1972 landslide loss to Richard Nixon. Nixon won 520 electoral votes, McGovern managed a paltry 17.
Despite McGovern's massive loss, the Dems treat him like a wise man, an elder who should be listened to. And being an anti-war politician, McGovern has plenty of ideas on the Iraq war, including an exit strategy. Many Dems take his views on Iraq seriously.
Left-wing talk show host Amy Goodman interviewed McGovern about Iraq, and asked him if he thought Obama and Clinton are committed to pulling US troops out of Iraq. From the transcript:
AMY GOODMAN: And do you think they are?
GEORGE McGOVERN: Yes, I do.
AMY GOODMAN: They have not talked about immediate withdrawal.
GEORGE McGOVERN: No, they haven’t, and I wish they would. I wish—I’d like to have a time certain. I wrote a book with one of our best Middle East experts, Bill Polk, in which we called a year-and-a-half ago for a six-month withdrawal period. There’s no reason why it should take more than six months. People ask how we’re going to do it. One way to do it is to put them in trucks and head for the border. That’s how we got in there.
Memo to McGovern: the hasty US withdrawal from Vietnam didn't work out well for anybody except the communists. Below is a photo of the last group of South Vietnamese civilians desperate to leave the country, knowing their lives were in jeopardy.
The American people do not want to fail the Iraqi people.
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