Posted on 06/12/2006 10:57:54 AM PDT by West Coast Conservative
Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., will this week introduce legislation to pull the majority of U.S. troops out of Iraq by the end of 2006, his office announced.
Kerry will offer an amendment to the 2007 defense authorization bill.
The recent trend in Iraq has been to increase rather than decrease American troops. Earlier this month the U.S. military announced that 3,500 troops -- two battalions of a brigade that was being held in Kuwait as a back up force -- had been deployed to Anbar province, the heart of the insurgency. Those battalions joined another that had already been called forward to Baghdad.
Kerry's amendment would hinge on establishing a schedule with the Iraqi government.
"This will legitimize the new Iraqi government, enable the Iraqis to become more self-reliant, and undermine support for the insurgency," the announcement from his office said.
Under Kerry's plan, not all U.S. troops would leave Iraq. Those "essential to completing the mission of standing up Iraqi security forces would remain," the announcement said.
The United States would maintain presence in the region "to prosecute the war on terror and protect regional security interests."
Finally, his amendment will call on President George W. Bush to convene a summit including the new Iraqi government, leaders of the governments of each country bordering Iraq, representatives of the Arab League, the secretary general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, representatives of the European Union, and leaders of the governments of each permanent member of the United Nations Security Council to reach reach an agreement on Iraq's fundamental political challenges -- whether and how the country will be federalized along geographic lines, how oil revenues are to be divided, what to do about sectarian militias, security guarantees, reconstruction, economic assistance and border security, Kerry's office said.
Sounds like a puppet government beholden to international countries, doesn't it? Did we have our kids die there so the people can become slaves of another master?
I mean really. Kerry is just a silly ass. It never ceases to amaze me that the whole country can't see it.
HAHAHAHAHAHa...exactly what I was thinking.
And I thought my 10, was original.
This is perfect. It is just the sort of move our enemies in Iraq want to see.
Mr. Kerry should be ashamed.
If we lose this fight, and we're winning it at this stage, a large part of the middle east will be transformed into a large black hole.
What a putz.
Well he said he had a plan. Kinda figured all along it would involve pulling out short of victory.
Kerry, who served in Vietnam by btw, doesn't know his ass from his face. Only thing he does is try to look statesman while lacking major cojones..
didn't he do this back in April also .. saying the end of May the President should start pulling troops out?
ROFLMAO!!
The best, very best post I have ever heard on Kerry!!!!!
Friends don't let friends vote for surrender donkeys.
But, then again, neither is the word "asshat."
Run Kerry you piece of crap.
The Dims should form a band called:
'TURNCOAT KERRY and the CRAVEN PRE-EJACULATORS'
This what I like about FR. Little known facts to supplement the articles.
Psssssssssssssssstttt.... Mr Kerry, that is Bush's plan!
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