[Peace-discuss] Democrats to Bush: Time to end Iraq war

[Ricky Baldwin]

The trouble is, the Democrats are still not willing to
say what the electorate has: pull out.  "New
direction" can mean so many things ...

Ricky  
--- "Chas. 'Mark' Bee" <c-bee1 at itg.uiuc.edu> wrote:

> "The American people demonstrated in the November
> elections that they do not 
> believe your current Iraq policy will lead to
> success and that we need a change 
> of direction for the sake of our troops," the letter
> said....
> 
> Democrats to Bush: Time to end Iraq war
> 
>
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070105/pl_afp/usiraqbushcongress2
> 
> WASHINGTON (AFP) - The US Congress's new Democratic
> leaders warned President 
> George W. Bush that surging more troops into Iraq
> would fail and it was time to 
> end the war, days before his expected unveiling of a
> new US strategy.
> 
> New Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and new House
> of Representatives Speaker 
> Nancy Pelosi flexed political muscles acquired by
> grabbing control of Congress 
> in November's elections, cranking up pressure on the
> White House.
> 
> Bush, widely expected to send more troops into Iraq
> in a last-ditch effort to 
> rescue the violence-wracked nation, also faced new
> pressure from the opposite 
> political flank, as hawkish senators John McCain and
> Joseph Lieberman urged him 
> not to admit defeat.
> 
> Pelosi and Reid called on Bush to start a phased
> redeployment of US forces 
> within four to six months.
> "After nearly four years of combat, tens of
> thousands of US casualties and over 
> 300 billion dollars, it is time to bring the war to
> a close," the two leaders 
> wrote.
> 
> "The American people demonstrated in the November
> elections that they do not 
> believe your current Iraq policy will lead to
> success and that we need a change 
> of direction for the sake of our troops," the letter
> said.
> 
> "Surging forces is a strategy that you have already
> tried and that has already 
> failed..... 
> 
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