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Democrats Split On Iraq
Democrats will put Iraq in Quagmire
Democrat Congress Lied and Soldiers die
Date: 11/10/2006 5:41:17 PM ( 20 y ) ... viewed 1405 times The fighting between Conservative Democrats and leftist Democrats may put us in A quagmire in Iraq. A situation that Democrats were in in Vietnam.
-- Democrats nationwide say that the United States should withdraw its troops from Iraq, but remain divided when it comes to how and when.
Like their party leaders, members of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) offered a range of opinions yesterday about the recent call from Rep. John P. Murtha, Pennsylvania Democrat, for a complete pullout within six months.
"I think eventually there's going to be a civil war. It's time for the Iraqis to take care of their own problems," said Robert Bell, who agreed with Mr. Murtha's proposal.
Sen. Russell Feingold (D-Wis.) broke with his party leadership last week to become the first senator to call for all troops to be withdrawn from Iraq by a specific deadline. Feingold proposed Dec. 31, 2006. In delivering the Democrats' weekly radio address yesterday, former senator Max Cleland (Ga.), a war hero who lost three limbs in Vietnam, declared that "it's time for a strategy to win in Iraq or a strategy to get out."
"Clearly Democrats are not united in what is the critique of what we're doing there and what is the answer to what we do next," said Steve Elmendorf, a senior party strategist whose former boss, then-House Minority Leader Richard A. Gephardt (Mo.), voted in 2002 to authorize the invasion of Iraq. "The difficulty of coming to a unified position is that for a lot of people who voted for it, they have to decide whether they can admit that they were misled."
"The American people are much farther ahead in their thinking about the war than the White House or the Republican Congress," said Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.). "They understand we can't continue down this same failed course in Iraq."
Like the Good Ship Lollipop, The DNC is not even sworn in and their platform is breaking up at sea!
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