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DeepModem Mom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-19-06 07:53 PM
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Bill Richardson, Wesley Clark campaign in New Hampshire
WP/AP: Potential 2008 Candidates Campaign in N.H.
By ANNE SAUNDERS
The Associated Press
Sunday, March 19, 2006

CONCORD, N.H. -- Three potential presidential candidates (Richardson, Romney and Clark) agreed Saturday that there's no easy way out of Iraq, but they took widely different approaches to the challenge.

New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson was the only one to suggest a pullout date for the American military, saying Iraqi security forces should be trained to take over by the end of this year or early next year....

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Another possible candidate, retired Army Gen. Wesley Clark, said at New England College that preventing civil war in Iraq will require America's political influence, not just its military force.

Clark, who sought the Democratic nomination for president in 2004, said the United States should be pushing Shiite Muslims to include Sunnis in the government and to ensure that the country's oil wealth is shared by all.

"It is a political problem primarily, not a military one," he said....Clark opposed setting a pullout date for American military forces....

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/19/AR2006031900411.html
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FrenchieCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-19-06 08:18 PM
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1. Well, looks like Richardson has succumbed to the polls that will make him
attractive to the base.

Looks like Clark is a bit more complicated in his approach (no out now....or stay the course)....even his quotes they used in the article..."If we pull out before there's stability in Iraq, before there's been peacemaking between the Sunnis and the Shi'as, I do think the likelihood is we'll have deeper conflict and it will become regional in scale."

Clark noted that the tensions between the two major Muslim sects extend beyond Iraq.

"That's a 1,300-year civil war within Islam that's being fought out in Iraq right now," he said.


Romney...well he's supports the President.

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