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| Quote: | Democrats To Push For Phased Redeployment
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrats, who won majorities in the U.S. Congress in last week's elections, said on Sunday they will push for a phased withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq to begin in four to six months.
"The first order of business is to change the direction of Iraq policy," said Sen. Carl Levin, a Michigan Democrat who is expected to be chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee in the new Congress.
Levin, on ABC's "This Week," said he hoped some Republicans would emerge to join Democrats and press the administration of President George W. Bush to tell the Iraqi government that U.S. presence was "not open-ended." [...]
Speaking on the same program, Sen. Joseph Biden, a Delaware Democrat who is expected to head the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said he supported Levin's proposal for a withdrawal.
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| Sun Nov 12, 2006 6:47 pm |
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Why am I not surprised? 
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| Sun Nov 12, 2006 8:29 pm |
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Silly Dems.
| Quote: | Saddam�s general wants US to stay
THE Iraqi general leant back and laughed so hard that his belly shook. General Jamal Ahmed was recounting Saddam Hussein�s visit to his war room, when all his generals knew that the Iraqi army would be beaten by the Americans but feared to contradict their leader�s insistence that they would prevail.
As commander of a 1,500-man brigade in a province that borders on Baghdad�s northern limits, Ahmed, 48, now has to listen to Iraq�s new leaders call for American troops to withdraw, knowing full well that the Iraqi army would again be overrun if they did.
�One hundred per cent we need the Americans in Iraq now,� Ahmed said last week in his office at the Taji base, 20 miles north of Baghdad. �The army can�t stand. We will be killed. We need training. Weapons. Equipment.�
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The only way to stabilize Iraq is a complete US crackdown on activity, which would be viewed very poorly by the rest of the world.
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