Feinstein Renews Call to Withdraw Troops from Iraq

Feinstein Marks Differences with Challenger and Renews Call to Withdraw Troops from Iraq
March 23rd, 2006 @ 11:36 am

Yesterday in Century City, CA, Senator Dianne Feinstein laid out her views on Iraq troop withdrawals, abortion rights and greenhouse gas reductions. Her speech offered a clear contrast with the views of her Republican challenger Richard Mountjoy who is noted to be a staunch conservative on mnay issues including South Dakota’s new abortion law. Feinstein did not mention Mountjoy in her speech, however, she did stake ground on a “range of topics that made clear she and her San Gabriel Valley rival hold fundamentally different visions of how to represent California in the Senate.”

On the war, Feinstein renewed her call to pull 80,000 U.S. troops out of Iraq this year and remove the rest by the end of 2007.

“I believe we should transition the American position there from one of permanence to a secondary role,” she said.

The former San Francisco mayor also urged President Bush, once again, to replace Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, despite Bush’s rejection of that suggestion Tuesday.

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Feinstein wants to add 21 more ?????

wonderful position ...

what's your point?

i read what she said; i think it stinks ... she's talking about a sustained troop presence in Iraq for a very long time ...

i believe our presence there, even for one more day, is hindering any possible resolution of the situation ... i don't believe anything positive is being accomplished ...

if bush were to "succeed" militarily in Iraq, and he won't, the result will be another US puppet regime ...

if we win "win", we lose; if we lose, we lose ... it's time to leave ... NOW ... not in 21 months the way Feinstein and Dean want to do ...