Bring US troops in Iraq home: leading US daily (NYT had lead editorial

[rodeodance]

saying the same). things are a changin'!!


http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070506/ts_alt_afp/usiraqmediamilitary_070506225859;_ylt=AmYEzfGP8yMKzb6QzRLIwa7MWM0F
Bring US troops in Iraq home: leading US daily

Sun May 6, 6:58 PM ET

LOS ANGELES (AFP) - One of America's premier newspapers wrote Sunday that the time has come to bring US troops home from
Iraq, as support across the United States for continuing US military operations there continues to erode.


"After four years of war, more than 350 billion dollars spent and 3,363 US soldiers killed and 24,310 wounded, it seems increasingly obvious that an Iraqi political settlement cannot be achieved in the shadow of an indefinite foreign occupation," the moderately left-of-center newspaper wrote.

"Having invested so much in Iraq, Americans are likely to find disengagement almost as painful as war. But the longer we delay planning for the inevitable, the worse the outcome is likely to be," the LA Times editorial read.

"The time has come to leave."

The paper wrote that the US government "should immediately declare its intention to begin a gradual troop drawdown, starting no later than the fall."