They appear to be playing the political game that they all eventually play.
WASHINGTON (Map, News) - Seven months ago, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton said President Bush’s surge of troops into Iraq “cannot be successful.”
The surge was also opposed by Democratic White House hopefuls Barack Obama, who said it “makes absolutely no sense,” and John Edwards, who pronounced the idea “dead wrong.”
But now even some Democrats are saying the surge is working. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin, who initially opposed the surge, told reporters after a visit to Iraq this month that surge troops “are starting to have an impact” by “making real progress” in “routing out the al Qaeda.”
A turning point in the conventional wisdom occurred three weeks ago, when Democratic scholars Michael O’Hanlon and Kenneth Pollack of the Brookings Institution wrote an op-ed column in the New York Times headlined, “A War We Just Might Win.”
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