Obama calls for troop withdrawal! - Democratic Underground

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Tue Nov-22-05 07:03 PM
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Obama calls for troop withdrawal!

CHICAGO - Sen. Barack Obama on Tuesday called for a troop reduction in Iraq and criticized the Bush administration for questioning the patriotism of people who have spoken out against the war.

"I believe that U.S. forces are still a part of the solution in Iraq," the Illinois Democrat said during a speech to the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations. "The strategic goals should be to allow for a limited drawdown of U.S. troops, coupled with a shift to a more effective counter-insurgency strategy that puts the Iraqi security forces in the lead and intensifies our efforts to train Iraqi forces."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051122/ap_on_go_co/obama_iraq

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Tue Nov-22-05 07:46 PM
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1. Let all the Democrats

Edited on Tue Nov-22-05 07:46 PM by ProSense

call for withdrawal---full, partial, whatever. Let the media deal with the semantics. The fact remains that the Republicans have no plan. Obama is a newbie and even he has some idea what needs to be done.

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