Democrats want troops out if goals unmet (A real plan??)

[babylonsister]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070302/ap_on_go_co/us_iraq;_ylt=A0WTUZlbiOdF3HQBohms0NUE

Democrats want troops out if goals unmet

By ANNE FLAHERTY, Associated Press Writer Fri Mar 2, 12:50 AM ET

WASHINGTON - House Democratic leaders have coalesced around legislation that would require troops to come home from Iraq within six months if that country's leaders fail to meet promises to help reduce violence there, party officials said Thursday.


The plan would retain a Democratic proposal prohibiting the deployment to Iraq of troops with insufficient rest or training or who already have served there for more than a year. Under the plan, such troops could only be sent to Iraq if
President Bush waives those standards and reports to Congress each time.

The proposal is the latest attempt by Democrats to resolve deep divisions within the party on how far to go to scale back U.S. involvement in Iraq. Rep. James Moran (news, bio, voting record) said the latest version has the support of party leadership and said he believes it is final and has the best chance at attracting broad support.

"We're going to report out" a war spending bill "that's responsive to the will of the voters last November and brings our troops home as soon and safely as possible," Moran, D-Va., said in an interview Thursday.

Moran, a member of the House committee that oversees military spending, said the plan was discussed in a closed-door meeting of committee Democrats on Thursday.

Brendan Daly, a spokesman for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (news, bio, voting record), D-Calif., declined to confirm the details and or say whether Pelosi backs the plan. But he said: "We have said we want to make sure our troops have all the training and equipment they need and that the Iraqi government must meet the benchmarks President Bush endorsed."

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[acmavm]

1. And here I thought that the Dems took the House and Senate

because the American people wanted an end to this shit NOW!

How stupid am I?

:sarcasm:

[Clark2008]

2. It would, logistically, take them six months to get out anyway.

[acmavm]

3. So they're going to vote to give all that money for six months?

Six months of unsustained bullshit and ied attacks and car bombings and what have you? When the end finally came in Viet Nam I am sitting here telling you that it did not take six months to get out. Once the decision was made we were gone.

The picture of those people lined up for helicopters to freedom and on that roof top is a heartbreaker, especially since we had to abandon a lot of people to savagery and barbaric treatment, people who has worked for 'our side'. But then, that's what happens when you start wars based on lies and greed and a never-ending hunger for power and domination.