Start U.S. Iraq withdrawal in 4-6 months: Democrats

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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.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061112/pl_nm/iraq_usa_democrats_dc_1

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Elections have consequences. These clueless dems are determined to lose this war. Apparently, they will succeed.

 

[bulldogg]

God damn morons... "In a democracy the people get the government they deserve."- Thomas Jefferson. So now the fight will move to American soil, brilliant move.

 

[Team Infidel]

i doubt that will happen.. but a phased with drawl could been 10 soldiers at a time....

 

[Senior Chief]

God damn morons... "In a democracy the people get the government they deserve."- Thomas Jefferson. So now the fight will move to American soil, brilliant move.

That is one of those points that have evaded the democrats combined thinking. I just hope that if there is another attack inside our borders it has minimal impact on the nation.

When we were attacked on 9/11 there was a united front against the attackers. As time passed we saw some pretty poor judgement by those that were offended by the manner in which we protected them from attack.

I pray that we do not get attacked again, for whatever reason. I do know that if we do get attacked again the burden of protecting our country will have been hampered if the current "ruling party" plays the typical game and downsizes our military again.

 

[Donkey]

Now we will breed a whole new type of hatred for the US in Iraq...The ones that gave hope and left them to die AGAIN....

Do people really think that this will fix itself???? Does anything ever fix itself???