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Posted on 11/02/2005 4:30:46 PM PST by blam
Daschle Calls for Troops Pullout by 2008
Thursday November 3, 2005 12:01 AM
By MARY CLARE JALONICK
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - Former Senate Democratic leader Tom Daschle says all U.S. troops ought to be withdrawn from Iraq by the end of 2007.
The South Dakota Democrat, defeated for re-election last November, made the comment in a foreign policy speech set for delivery in Chicago on Wednesday, three days before a planned visit to politically pivotal Iowa.
Daschle has raised his public profile in recent weeks and has not ruled out a presidential run in 2008.
In an advance text of the speech, obtained by The Associated Press, Daschle said terrorism and AIDS had become greater threats under the Bush administration. He accused President Bush of giving rise to ``a world opinion that now holds America in lower esteem than ever before.''
``Looking at all of these things together, you would have to conclude American foreign policy today is broken,'' Daschle said.
Daschle proposed a ``strategic redeployment'' in Iraq that would draw down the first 80,000 of the 150,000 U.S. troops by the end of 2006. That should free up an additional 20,000 troops who could be sent to Afghanistan, he said.
He said he has ``thought and prayed an awful lot'' about his vote in the fall of 2002, when Congress gave Bush the authority to invade Iraq.
``I often get asked whether I made the right or wrong call,'' he said. ``The way these questions are often asked of me, it feels as if it's some kind of game of political gotcha. It is indicative of a disconnected self-indulgence in Washington that believes what matters most is what Washington does and how it feels about what it has done.''
He added that he received misleading information in the lead-up to the war.
A spokeswoman for the Republican National Committee, Tracey Schmitt, described Daschle's comments as ``a transparent search for relevance.''
I hope someone in the MSM asks to see his plan.
Hey. I can do that: blam calls for moon landing by Christmas. (See how easy)
All who care what Daschle has to say...raise your hand. ;^D
I forgot he was still alive.
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Daschle just KNOWS the new Dem president would not be able to handle Iraq.
Cut from the Carter, Clinton mold. Stale and flat.
Who the hell is Dashhole now? We threw him out on his ass in the last election. This guy is a sick joke.
She's being kind.
"The...Democrat, defeated for re-election last November..."
Yep, says it all.
This man is wasting oxygen!
LOL, run Tommy run.
I thought that some cat would have eaten him by now seeing what a little mouse he is.
Tom Daschle and the Guardian - birds of a feather. DILLIGAS? Both are still searching for relevance.
What a treat! Is this loser coming out day or what? First Jimmy Carter and now Tom Daschle! I love when bitter, defeated politicians put their two cents in. They always spout the most venomous attacks. There should be a joint Al Gore/ Jimmy Carter bitter loser award for the nastiest comment by a rejected politician!
Didn't South Dakota, along with the rest of the country tell Daschle to STFU in November of 2004?
Daschole alert!
Wants to give the terrorists a 3 year warning that we are cut and running.
Why does the left insist we turn every victory into a Vietnam?
Now, if only anyone would call Daschle, he might have something!
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