CNN poses a chilling question: if Americans elect Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton, will the military's top officials let us end the Iraq war?
According to the report, generals say they are preparing to fight a withdrawal plan in 2009 just like they fought against allowing gays in the military in 1993.
One general warned of the political damage that battle inflicted on Bill Clinton during his first year in office. According to CNN, retired Lt. Gen. Daniel Christman put a stake in the ground:
The next president of the United States, if it is a Democrat, is going to have to sit down with the generals and work this out.
This is a reminder of what's at stake in this election -- and why we need a president with unquestioned consistency on the question of Iraq. We're going to have a tough battle in 2009, and we need a president who has never wavered in his opposition to the war.
It's going to take a lot of strength to challenge the military-industrial complex that President Eisenhower warned us about forty-seven years ago. Barack Obama has that strength.
© Jed Lewison