John Edwards has bought air time to respond to Pres. Bush tonight. (Disclosure: I advise (for free) the campaign on Net policy.)

I don’t envy any of the candidates. There’s no way forward and no way backward. It’s what we call a “quagmire.” Most of the candidates — Biden excepted — have provided process plans, not actual pictures of what the country should and could look like. I don’t want to hear that we’ll involve the countries that have a stake in Iraq’s future, even though I think that’s important to do. I want to hear that Iraq is going to end up as three federated regions and here’s how they’re going to split the oil revenues, and here’s how we’re going to prevent a war when one of the sub-nations gets greedy…or whatever. I want a plan with a vision, not a plan with a process to get to a vision.

I am, of course, asking too much. That’s how badly the Bush regime has screwed up. And how many more Americans and Iraqis will die for it? [Tags: iraq politics john_edwards]

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