Democrats have no plan?

It is being widely circulated here and there that while Democrats have been critical of the "war' they have no plan for ending it. I guess that is more or less true. It might be fair to say that in general Democrats have a goal (getting out of Iraq) but they have no plan. Their goal is in itself a step forward insofar as the Bush/Cheney warmongers have no goal of getting out of Iraq and obviously intend to stay until the oil runs out (as Rove said not long ago, "leave those terrorists sitting on all that oil?"). And do not forget that Bush/Cheney are building the largest and most expensive and heavily fortified embassy in the world right there in the green zone, in addition to the other bases they are constructing in Iraq.

But as plans go, why should the Democrats be expected to have a plan? Although some Democrats, foolishly believing the lies they were told by Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld/Rice, voted in favor of the "war," they have not been involved in its planning or execution. From the beginning it has been completely a White House, Pentagon, and Republican enterprise. It is totally their "war" and no amount of spin can make it otherwise. They are currently trying to make it appear that now that Democrats have the House and Senate it is their "war" too, and they should somehow have a plan to bail the neocons out of their disaster (actually, disaster is too mild a word for what they have wrought in Iraq). It is obvious (painfully) that Republicans have no plan for undoing the incredible damage they have caused, and if they, who planned and carried out the whole enterprise, and presumably know what they have done and why, and where the troops are, and what the situation is, and so on, have no plan, why on earth would anyone expect the Democrats to have such a plan?

If Democrats are foolish enough to allow the Republicans suck them into this mess, and try to make them complicit in their illegal, immoral, unconstitutional, and unnecessary "war," they do not deserve to hold any "reins of power" whatsoever. Similarly, if Democrats do not try to hold Bush/Cheney and the others accountable for their war crimes, the rest of the world will have no alternative but to believe that the U.S. sanctions such behavior and has, in fact, become a rogue and hyper-dangerous nation.

As the majority of Iraqis have made it clear they want us out of their country, and as a majority of Americans also want us out, probably the best and only plan is to admit defeat and try to withdraw as smoothly as we are able. In other words, cut (our losses) and run (in as dignified a way as possible). The only alternative seems to be just more and more senseless killing, maiming, and misery.