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STEWART: Can you explain, just briefly, what are some of your proposals?
FEINGOLD: It‘s pretty straightforward. It says that the Congress should enact a timeline, and have the president sign a bill that would say six months from the time the bill is enacted, the troops need to be out of Iraq, very similar to what we did with Somalia in the early ‘90s. That worked after Black Hawk down. We lost 18 men there. We decided, this isn‘t working, it doesn‘t make sense.
And we set a time frame, and troops were out of there safely.
The way to enforce it in my bill is to simply say the funding is no longer there at the end. But this idea that somehow we‘re going to take away something from the troops that are there already, that‘s just not true. Our proposal is that the troops will be out of there. That‘s the safest thing for the troops is to not be there.
And that‘s what our proposal would do. It wouldn‘t take away their equipment. That‘s just one of the red herrings or phony arguments that the Republicans use, and usually effectively scare the Democrats into not standing up for what is right, and that is to end this mistaken war and get back to fighting the real issue, which is those that attacked us on 9/11.