Reply #1: Transcript on what Dean said in San Antonio. [View All]

WOAI: Is congressman's John Murtha's demand that all US troops be withdrawn from Iraq, is that in the mainstream of democratic party philosophy now?

Dean: Well he actually didn't demand that at all, he didn't even use the word withdrawal and I don't use the word withdrawal either. I think we need a strategic re-deployment over a period of 2 years. What John was basing his discussion on was a report by Lawrence Korb who's actually a defense department official with the Reagan Administration. He has a way of getting out of Iraq which I think makes a lot of sense and I think the Democrats will coalesce around it. Basically he says bring the 80,000 guardsmen home. They don't belong in a conflict like this anyway...

WOAI: He did say re-deploying you're absolutely right about the terminology, but he also did say 6 months, whereas you're saying in a couple of years, Nancy Pelosi's saying 6 months, and some other major democrats are saying a couple of years. If I'm on the fence whether I'm going to be a Democrat or Republican or how I'm going to vote coming up in the next election, I'm not really sure what you guys are saying. Is there a specific time frame that you want to tell us today about when that redeployment should happen?"

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