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As a blogger, from time to time you see what appear to be echoes of your views appearing in various public statements, and occasionally you wonder if you may have been one of many contributing to the expression of those views in those statements.
Yesterday there was a lot of public discussion of a dust-up that happened on Sunday between Senators Graham and Webb on the subject of Iraq. From Senator's Graham's remarks:
GRAHAM: If General Petraeus comes back, he will tell us these things. I want to leave. No American wants to occupy Iraq, but history will judge us, my friend, not when we left but what we left behind. Do we leave a resurgent Al-Qaeda that will kill every moderate who helped us? Do we empower Iran, do they control the south of Iraq? Nobody ever asks the consequences, polls the consequences of this idea, just wash your hands of Iraq. I'm going to listen to this general and I'm not going to let any politician take the place of the general.
Just a few days previously I had made precisely this point regarding a recent poll on Iraq, and provided evidence for it. The post was linked by Pajamas Media, as well.
