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Democrat Proposes Making Withdrawal Date Secret
WP ^ | March 27, 2007

Posted on 03/27/2007 9:22:53 AM PDT by bnelson44

In one of the more unusual proposals to emerge in the Senate debate on Iraq withdrawal, Sen. Mark Pryor wants to keep any plans for bringing troops home a secret.

The Arkansas Democrat is a key holdout on his party's proposal to approve $122 billion for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan while setting a goal of March 31, 2008, for winding up military operations in Iraq. Unlike the plan's Republican opponents, Pryor wants a withdrawal deadline of some kind. He just doesn't want anyone outside the White House, Congress and the Iraqi government to know what it is.

"My strong preference would be to have a classified plan and a classified timetable that should be shared with Congress," Pryor said yesterday. A public deadline would tip off the enemy, "who might just bide their time and wait for us to leave," he said. "Then you'd have chaos and mayhem and instability."

Pryor said a classified plan would be provided by the president, shepherded by Senate committees and ultimately shared with Congress and Iraqi leaders. He is confident that the plan would remain secret, because Congress is entrusted with secrets "all the time."

What if the president's withdrawal plan didn't include a deadline? Or what if it leaked, through leaders in Iraq, to insurgents?

All worth considering, Pryor said. But in the meantime, "at least you'd have a plan."

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: iraq; pryor
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To: I see my hands
Surprise attack: bad, surprise retreat: good.

Excellent observation!!

21 posted on 03/27/2007 9:35:45 AM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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To: bnelson44
THREE CAN KEEP A SECRET IF TWO ARE DEAD

--Sign in the office of New Orleans mobster Carlos Marcello
22 posted on 03/27/2007 9:36:08 AM PDT by Brad from Tennessee (")
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To: Lloyd227
He just doesn't want anyone outside the White House, Congress and the Iraqi government to know what it is.

Now that Mark Dayton has retired, Pryor has an excellent shot at being voted the dumbest senator with a penis.

Is this what he is trying for? Does he actually think such a "secret" wouldn't be splashed on the front page of the New York Slimes or Washington ComPost within 24 hours?

23 posted on 03/27/2007 9:36:29 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (Are there any men left in Washington? Or are there only cowards? Ahmad Shah Massoud)
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To: bnelson44

Yeah, Leakey Leahey would tip off AQ and the Gang'


24 posted on 03/27/2007 9:36:48 AM PDT by IllumiNaughtyByNature (I buy gas for my Hummer with the Carbon Offsets I sell on Ebay!)
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To: bnelson44
[... Democrat Proposes Making Withdrawal Date Secret ..]

LoL.. Yeah like thats gonna happen..

25 posted on 03/27/2007 9:37:18 AM PDT by hosepipe (CAUTION: This propaganda is laced with hyperbole....)
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To: bnelson44
BWAAAAHAAAAH!

With Leaky Leahy and Rockefeller having access to the information?

Very funny!

26 posted on 03/27/2007 9:37:26 AM PDT by DCPatriot ("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon))
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To: bnelson44
Truth is stranger than fiction.

All I can think about is how much tax payer money this guy is earning while proposing such "profound" ideas.
27 posted on 03/27/2007 9:38:18 AM PDT by Red6 (Come and get it.)
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To: bnelson44
"My strong preference would be to have a classified plan and a classified timetable that should be shared with Congress,"

Anything shared with Congress will stay classified until roughly 5 o'clock. Or whenever the Big Three pollute the airwaves with their "Nightly News" in your town.

28 posted on 03/27/2007 9:38:36 AM PDT by Quick or Dead (Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms - Aristotle)
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To: bnelson44

A secret would last about as long as it took leaky Leahy to dial his cell phone.


29 posted on 03/27/2007 9:40:22 AM PDT by Vinnie (You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Jihads You)
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To: bnelson44

These liberal clowns are so worried about their precious political careers. They're just so anxious and perturbed by criticism from their liberal base about Iraq. There isn't a single leader left in the Democrat party, and none of them have the backbone to take any political heat. They are self-focused children, anxious about themselves and their trivial political careers. If we surrender in Iraq, the diplomatic and strategic consequences will be terrible and lasting. We would lose credibility in all our foreign policy negotiations all over the world. My suggestion to the anxious congressional Dems is this: if you are too childish and you don't have the backbone to take some heat while you're in congress, then resign and start a new career in the private sector.


30 posted on 03/27/2007 9:40:56 AM PDT by Pub Linkser--80 ("We're goin' in to win. There's no turning back." -- US Admiral to D-Day assault troops, 6/5/44.)
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To: bnelson44

I wouldn't trust the dems. One of them would "leak" this to the NYTimes.


31 posted on 03/27/2007 9:41:44 AM PDT by Leftism is Mentally Deranged
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To: wita

It would be in the washington post front page the next morning.


32 posted on 03/27/2007 9:42:32 AM PDT by Armedanddangerous (Master of Sinanju, Emeritus)
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To: bnelson44

A double secret probation withdrawal date.
Just don't tell Leaky Leahy.


33 posted on 03/27/2007 9:43:03 AM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: Armedanddangerous

SHHH-HHH Don't tell the NY Times!


34 posted on 03/27/2007 9:43:18 AM PDT by LYSandra
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To: bnelson44
How quickly will the secret retreat date be available on leahyBay: the auction site for national security secrets.
35 posted on 03/27/2007 9:44:14 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (Parker v. DC: the best court decision of the year.)
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To: bnelson44

He's got a secret! A tisket a tasket!

These people are deranged!


36 posted on 03/27/2007 9:44:28 AM PDT by OldFriend ( TOM DeLAY FAN)
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To: bnelson44

LOL!!!! With Rockefeller around, there are no secrets.


37 posted on 03/27/2007 9:45:07 AM PDT by syriacus (Truman as president: Korean War; 30,000 US deaths; full wartime censorship; military draft)
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To: bnelson44

The democrats specialize in "secret plans", don't they?


38 posted on 03/27/2007 9:45:49 AM PDT by MortMan (Good health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die.)
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To: bnelson44

And we all know how good the Democrats are at keeping secrets.


39 posted on 03/27/2007 9:45:53 AM PDT by popdonnelly (Our first responsibility is to keep the power of the Presidency out of the hands of the Clintons.)
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To: bnelson44

The Dems would just leak the date anyway.


40 posted on 03/27/2007 9:46:40 AM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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