Feingold: We need an exit plan and date for Iraq War

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http://www.businessnorth.com/kuws.asp?RID=1233

Feingold: We need an exit plan and date for Iraq War

U.S. Senator Russ Feingold is considering setting a date for withdrawing American forces from Iraq. Mike Simonson reports that date could be as soon as the end of next year.

Feingold says he's getting an earful from people at his county listening sessions about the war in Iraq. The Democrat from Middleton says he's telling them that President Bush needs to have a withdrawal plan. But requests for that by Congress have hit a brick wall. "Nobody's really responding to it so now I'm thinking about at least throwing out there what kind of a timetable we should have. I don't think I'm the one who should be deciding that but if nobody is going to have the guts to talk about it, I think I'd better start talking about it." Feingold says the president is not showing leadership in dealing with the Iraqi war by not having an exit plan. "There's no science to it. It obviously involves a lot of factors, there has to be some flexibility, but at some point you just have to make a judgment that things aren't working and that we need to finish what we can and cut our losses and return to the focus on the real fight against terrorism, against Al Quaeda and their associates." Feingold says an Australian general told him U.S. forces could be out by the end of next year. He says he'll investigate that and if it makes sense, he'll bring that to the U.S. Senate. President Bush has said no pull-out date can be set until the security situation improves in Iraq. Feingold held listening sessions Tuesday in Price, Rusk and Sawyer Counties.

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1. WI citizens need to go back to becoming Progressives again!

This is a start - sad to say I live in a really big repuke county - Waukesha, with senselessbrenner as my rep(??) - although I am more embarassed by him than anything else.

Go Russ!