42 Democrats Vow a Drawdown in Iraq If They Win Seats

[babylonsister]

42 Democrats Vow a Drawdown in Iraq If They Win Seats

By Paul Kane
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, March 28, 2008; Page A03


More than three dozen Democratic congressional candidates banded together yesterday to promise that, if elected, they will push for legislation calling for an immediate drawdown of troops in Iraq that would leave only a security force in place to guard the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad.

Rejecting their party leaders' assertions that economic troubles have become the top issue on voters' minds, leaders of the coalition of 38 House and four Senate candidates pledged to make immediate withdrawal from Iraq the centerpiece of their campaigns.

"The people inside the Beltway don't seem to get how big an issue this is," said Darcy Burner, a repeat candidate who narrowly lost to Rep. Dave Reichert (R-Wash.) in 2006.

The group's 36-page plan does not set a specific deadline for when all combat troops must be out of Iraq. "Begin it now, do it as safely as you can and get everyone out," Burner said.

The starkest difference between the group's proposal, dubbed a "Responsible Plan to End the War in Iraq," and those embraced by many senior Democrats and the party's presidential candidates is that it rejects the idea of leaving U.S. troops on the ground to train Iraqi security forces or engage in anti-terrorism operations. The group instead calls for a dramatic increase in regional diplomacy and the deployment of international peacekeeping forces, if necessary.

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[Ganja Ninja]

1. Given the current circumstances how can we "drawdown"?

If things were pacified we could drawdown but with the explosion in violence our only option for reducing forces is to pull out altogether.

[babylonsister]

2. Pulling out altogether is what they're advocating.

Should we really be fighting in the middle of what's now a civil war? At some point, we gotta get outa that place.

[Ganja Ninja]

4. I'm just saying we have to abandon real estate if we're going to

reduce forces. If thats the plan I'm down with it.

[mike_c]

3. THIS is a democratic party plan I can fully support....

U.S. out of Iraq, period.

[madokie]

5. You and me too

The Iraqi will have nothing ever to do with anything USA ever and ever is a long long time.

[Broadslidin]

6. Will a 'Huff & Puff, Inc." politician say anything necessary to get elected....?

Ah,
the tried and true political path to success...
Simply stick a drool dampened finger high in the air... :nuke: :patriot: :nuke: