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Daschle Calls for U.S. Troops to Withdraw From Iraq
AP ^ | November 2 2005 | Mary Clare Jalonick

Posted on 11/02/2005 4:59:54 PM PST by jmc1969

The South Dakota Democrat, defeated for re-election last November, made the comment in a foreign policy speech set for delivery in Chicago on Wednesday, three days before a planned visit to politically pivotal Iowa.

Daschle has raised his public profile in recent weeks and has not ruled out a presidential run in 2008.

In an advance text of the speech, obtained by The Associated Press, Daschle said terrorism and AIDS had become greater threats under the Bush administration. He accused President Bush of giving rise to "a world opinion that now holds America in lower esteem than ever before."

"Looking at all of these things together, you would have to conclude American foreign policy today is broken," Daschle said.

Daschle proposed a "strategic redeployment" in Iraq that would draw down the first 80,000 of the 150,000 U.S. troops by the end of 2006. That should free up an additional 20,000 troops who could be sent to Afghanistan, he said.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; US: South Dakota
KEYWORDS: daschle2008
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To: jmc1969

Yeah, well frankiep calls for U.S. Troops to stay in Iraq until the job is done. And I would also like to make the following announcement: I also am not ruling out a 2008 presidential run!

I expect this important announcement to be published in newspapers across the country. I know that I'm not a senator, or an elected official or anything like that, but neither is this puss bag so I should get the same under the desk treatment from the MSM as well.


61 posted on 11/02/2005 6:08:39 PM PST by frankiep
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To: jmc1969
There is way too much fun to be had with this loser's opinions. Isn't it fitting this is the one year anniversary of his defeat?

Hey Daschle, you still lost.

62 posted on 11/02/2005 6:15:04 PM PST by jennyjenny
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To: GOP_Party_Animal
Daschle?

Hummmmmmmmmmmmm

I think I recall that name.

Wasn't he in BASEketball?

Yeah, that's him.....

But what was that name they called him?

Oh yeah.

He was the LITTLE B****!!

63 posted on 11/02/2005 6:22:37 PM PST by OXENinFLA
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To: jmc1969

So little Tommie climbed back upon his soapbox and just like when Algore rants no one cares.


64 posted on 11/02/2005 6:26:48 PM PST by trustandobey (Delay 2008)
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To: maineman
BE GONE Daschele the tiny lepregore

65 posted on 11/02/2005 6:29:08 PM PST by FreeAtlanta (never surrender, this is for the kids)
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To: GOP_Party_Animal

"Daschle Calls for U.S. Troops to Withdraw From Iraq"

I was going to say the same thing and I will.

"Who?"


66 posted on 11/02/2005 6:36:24 PM PST by EQAndyBuzz (Liberal Talking Point - Bush = Hitler ... Republican Talking Point - Let the Liberals Talk)
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To: jmc1969

Tommy's back! I've missed him.

Seriously.

Very few Democrats provided as much entertainment on a daily basis as Daschle managed. The Rush/Daschle exchange for weeks during one period was unforgettable. The period when Tommy realized talk radio did make a difference in elections and blamed them for, he claimed, death threats on his life.

Reid just doesn't pack the same fun.


67 posted on 11/02/2005 6:40:06 PM PST by Soul Seeker
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To: jmc1969
WHO ?
68 posted on 11/02/2005 8:03:23 PM PST by skinkinthegrass (Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get you :^)
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To: Soul Seeker
Reid just doesn't pack the same fun

No, He doesn't....He does have beady little eyes, though...like a Rat, that he has become.

69 posted on 11/02/2005 8:11:32 PM PST by skinkinthegrass (Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get you :^)
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To: foofoopowder
Hey foofoo,

Iraq is sitting on 500 Tons of Uranium.

You can add that to your list.
70 posted on 11/02/2005 8:19:02 PM PST by DocRock
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To: jmc1969

"a world opinion that now holds America in lower esteem than ever before."



Who gives a flying F what "the world" thinks?


71 posted on 11/02/2005 9:05:29 PM PST by trubluolyguy (Is it more stupid believe in God, or to be offended by that which you don't believe exists?)
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To: jmc1969

Daschle????

Who the hell is he?


72 posted on 11/02/2005 9:15:19 PM PST by clee1 (We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and I'm tired of smiling.)
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To: jmc1969

And next week he will call for an increase of troops to the sandbox like he did just a month ago.
That's what I love about the Democrats, they are so darn decisive !!!


73 posted on 11/02/2005 9:25:32 PM PST by R_Kangel ("Liberals are like a broken pencil.......useless with no point.")
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To: armymarinemom
Daschwho?

Daschole.
74 posted on 11/02/2005 9:26:18 PM PST by uncitizen
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To: jmc1969

Daschle is deeply saddened, Reid is disappointed.


75 posted on 11/02/2005 9:26:46 PM PST by Republican Wildcat
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To: Rebelbase

Too bad you can't make him sitting in the corner of the room being punished for being a commie.


76 posted on 11/02/2005 9:49:33 PM PST by antiunion person (It's all Bush's fault !!!)
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To: jmc1969

Tom, you make me sad.


77 posted on 11/02/2005 10:21:49 PM PST by rightinthemiddle (I know my enemy. I have Cable TV.)
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To: jmc1969
Let him call, the saddened one is now irrelevant!
78 posted on 11/02/2005 10:26:01 PM PST by Randy Larsen (I BELIEVE CONGRESSMAN WELDON!!!)
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To: jmc1969

Tom who??

Didn't we used to have a Senator with that name?


79 posted on 11/02/2005 10:26:29 PM PST by RockinRight (It’s likely for a Conservative to be a Republican, but not always the other way around)
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To: bfree

OK, so a longtime FORMER Senator who lost his own re-election, in a state that usually votes for the opposite party in Presidential elections...thinks he has a chance?

If he runs, I GUARAN-FREAKIN-TEE he loses South Dakota...and all of the Midwest and South...and pretty much every other state except maybe VT and CA.


80 posted on 11/02/2005 10:28:40 PM PST by RockinRight (It’s likely for a Conservative to be a Republican, but not always the other way around)
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