A CNN watcher this morning e-mails — a quick rough transcript and a comment:

“GOV. RICHARDSON: way. the point i wanted to make for our candidates, is troops are dying, over 100 every month, and my plan is until you get the troops all out, you can’t startdy pelosi, like getting the two groups together in a environment.
ROBERTS: but there’s no indication that they want to get together and no indication that the international participants want to get involved, as well.
GOV. RICHARDSON: no, but you use the leverage of our withdrawal and you engage diplomacy to almost force them to get in there. get iran and syria in there. my point is all these other candidates are still talking about, even though we’ve had 160,000 troops, they’re still ready to leave 50,000 troops behind. i don’t. i move them out, deploy them around the region for contingencies, into afghanistan, so there is a difference in our approach, and i believe i got that out in the debate last night and some of your poll tested video groups have been good.
1) Hate to break it to Gov Richardson, but Iran is already in there. 2) Is the Governor really advocating withdrawal of U.S. troops to hand over the country to two enemies of the United States? Really?