(Senator Barbara) Boxer: Troops should be pulled out [View All]

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http://insidebayarea.com/sanmateocountytimes/localnews/ci_3883037

Boxer: Troops should be pulled out
Senator gives news conference in San Francisco


SAN FRANCISCO — U.S. troops should be withdrawn from Iraq in no more than six months and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s children should be dispatched as U.S. emissaries to war-torn Sudan, U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer said Tuesday.

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Boxer announced Tuesday she'll introduce a resolution calling for withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq "within six months or at the earliest practicable date," meaning six months or sooner and not some indefinitely later practicable date.

Her resolution — which also calls for keeping troops nearby in the region should a quick return be needed and doesn't preclude specially targeted missions, training Iraqi security forces or protecting U.S. personnel — is similar to one already introduced in the House by Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa. But Boxer noted her resolution's reasoning is somewhat different. She believes U.S. troops have achieved all the benchmarks set for them — ending Saddam Hussein's regime, disproving the presence of weapons of mass destruction, training more than 240,000 Iraqi soldiers and police, and allowing for the election of Iraq's first permanent government