Beginning Of The End?

2:50 pm EST August 6th, 2006 | Democrats | 2 Comments

John Edwards calls for withdrawal of some troops from Iraq

Former vice presidential candidate John Edwards, who is considering another run for the Democratic nomination for president, said Saturday the United States should start pulling troops out of Iraq immediately.

The former U.S. Sen. from North Carolina told reporters America should "make it clear (to Iraqis) we are leaving, and the best way is to start leaving. We should take 40,000 combat troops out now."

Edwards, who has said he regretted his vote as a U.S. senator authorizing President Bush to declare war in Iraq, said he would ask the country’s military leaders for a strategy "to have the (rest of the) troops out in roughly 12 to 18 months."

"There is no chance other countries in the world will help Iraq as long as we are an occupying force," he said.

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2 Responses to “Beginning Of The End?”

  1. Dugger says:
    August 7, 2006 at 8:08 am

    Ok. This is idiotic. Would Pres Edwards commit well ahead of time to withdrawing 40K troops by a certain time – telegraph our military moves in advance to the enemy? Maybe we all want to be pandered to, but at least accepot a pander with soem reality to it.

    “Yoo hoo! Oh, Mr Terrorist. WE are withdrawing 40K troops as of Dec 31.”

    Pres Blood and Guts Edwards

    Bush is so weak and ineffectual, but damn if he ain’t better than anybody the Dems have got so far.

  2. Oliver Willis says:
    August 7, 2006 at 12:52 pm

    Yeah, clearly an ineffectual strategy compared to “hey, we’re going to stay here in Iraq so you can kill Americans and win the war on terror.”