Thanks for posting it. It represents what the left wants now, just as they wanted then.
Posted on 11/12/2006 7:40:13 AM PST by shrinkermd
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrats, who won majorities in the U.S. Congress in last week's elections, said on Sunday they will push for a phased withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq to begin in four to six months.
"The first order of business is to change the direction of Iraq policy," said Sen. Carl Levin (news, bio, voting record), a Michigan Democrat who is expected to be chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee in the new Congress.
Levin, on ABC's "This Week," said he hoped some Republicans would emerge to join Democrats and press the administration of President George W. Bush to tell the Iraqi government that U.S. presence was "not open-ended."
Bush has insisted that U.S. troops would not leave Iraq until the Iraqis were able to take over security for their country.
"We need to begin a phased redeployment of forces from Iraq in four to six months," Levin said.
Speaking on the same program, Sen. Joseph Biden (news, bio, voting record), a Delaware Democrat who is expected to head the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said he supported Levin's proposal for a withdrawal.
And especially when one of those 2 independent votes is in favor of the war and won re-election against the moonbats over such.
The Dems didn't just fail to take out Lieberman, they made him into the key swing vote in the Senate. Talk about unintended consequences.
That is old news .. most americans don't remember that or they don't pay attention and listen to whatever others tell them
The Dems also want Israel erradicated.
Hegel might go along, but not Snow or Collins.
Yep, Old Rangel will see to Making sure it gets defunded.
They have the power of the purse strings. And everyone knows it. They could try to cut off funding if they were serious about pulling out. Let's see if they have the stomach to put our money where their mouths are.
House members will defund the war.
You would think that the recent "Woo Hoo's" from the Islamofacists over the Rat wins taken in the context of the even more recent statements that the Islamofacists would not rest until they "blow up the White House" would give some of the cut and runners enough of a clue.
If we cut and run on an announced time table, expecially one so short, chaos will erupt (Saigon???), and these animals will again be free to pursue hitting us in the homeland. Iraq will resume being a free terror training camp without any outside restraint. Terrorists will be able to hit us HERE again.
The only way out of this is to fight and win.
I like your new tag line.
"It didn't have to happen this way"
No, it didn't. Republicans, recognizing that power can change, could have actually prosecuted the war in Iraq more aggressively and with a focus on unambiguous victory, rather than insert political issues and nation-building as the paramount driving force.
The Dems are attempting to do what the people have said they want with their votes last week.
We don't have to like it, but it appears it will happen, doesn't it?
They'll do some polling this week and see how the public takes this news.
Then, if they don't like the results, they'll offer a different direction.
Frankly I thought the "Bushies" gave that sort of stuff up when Prescott turned up on the losing side.
Thanks for posting it. It represents what the left wants now, just as they wanted then.
Took the words right off my keyboard.
The problem I see is that the media will all of a sudden start reporting all the good things that have been going on and make it look like the rats and their "it's too difficult let's cut and run" policy is working.
There won't be any reports of Iraqi's wanting us to stay like there is now, we will hear only a few people say they want us out and how effective the training has been. Even though just a short time ago we were miserably short on the training timetable all of a sudden we succeeded in training them.
I don't put any lying cheating plan past the rats and the media.
The voters spoke they want out of iraq now. The democrats will see to that and i wouldnt want my children fighting under this congress anyway
Ok.......it sounds nice, but HOW do you do this without massive consequences for the Iraqis and for the US? How do you do this without the US looking as though it failed? And HOW can they say this is best? I bet the majority of the troops do not want to come home looking as though they didn't accomplish their mission.
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