Poll Finds Voters Split on Candidates' Iraq-Pullout Positions
By Jonathan Weisman and Jon Cohen
Washington Post Staff Writers
Tuesday, July 15, 2008; Page A01
Michael E. O'Hanlon, a Democratic defense analyst at the Brookings Institution who has been an outspoken supporter of the war in Iraq, said he could not believe that Obama would put such a definitive timeline into print before a trip to Iraq, where he is to consult with Iraqi leaders and U.S. commanders.
"To say you're going to get out on a certain schedule -- regardless of what the Iraqis do, regardless of what our enemies do, regardless of what is happening on the ground -- is the height of absurdity," said O'Hanlon, who described himself as "livid." "I'm not going to go to the next level of invective and say he shouldn't be president. I'll leave that to someone else."
O'Hanlon is a Democrat in the same sense that Zell Miller and Joe Lieberman are Democrats.
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