Congressman John Murtha (D-Penn) believes that President Bush's 'surge' or escalation of US troops into Iraq "has failed," and that redeployment would not necessarily cause the humanitarian crisis that the White House has warned may happen, and that there might even be more stability.
"I think the surge has failed," Murtha told CNN's John Roberts on American Morning. "I think there was no possibility that it was going to work. I think the British had 130,000 people there 50 years ago, and -- well, it was 80 years ago, and they only 2.5 million people in Iraq."
Murtha doesn't believe conditions would get worse in a withdrawal, despite a recent op-ed written by former Secretary of State James Baker who was co-chairman of the Iraq Study Group, which warned, "A premature American departure from Iraq, we unanimously concluded, would almost certainly produce greater sectarian violence and further deterioration of conditions in Iraq and possibly other countries."
"I have a high regard for James Baker, but that's what the White House has been saying," Murtha said. "Just because they say it, doesn't make it true. We already have sectarian violence. We already have civil war and our troops are caught in between."
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