Senator Feingold: Troops out of Iraq by end of 2006
By Steve Boggess (08/18/05)
I don’t know if this could be considered as arrogant, or downright rude to make a statement such as this about pulling the troops out of Iraq by the end of next year.
The Wisconsin Democrat, who is seeking his party’s presidential nomination in 2008 planned to outline the details of his fantasy of early troop withdrawal at a community listening session held recently in Marquette, Wisconsin.
How many times must the President himself tell not only the press, but Democrats in general that to bring the troops home before the mission of training the Iraqi Army to independently protect their country would be a mistake of gargantuan proportions?
Interestingly enough, the senator wasn’t available for comment but did say in a press statement that the call for the 2006 deadline would jump-start the development of a specific plan to bring the troops home.
If you’re not available for comment senator, how can you be given the opportunity to tell exactly what this plan is? Especially since every Democrat is better at accusing the President of “neglecting urgent national security priorities in favor of staying a flawed policy course in Iraq.”
Those are your words senator, but in the course of trying to sell your opinion, you fail to give solutions on how to improve the so-called failed policy in Iraq. Again, you want to accuse, and not help.
Until the party of tolerance can come up with viable solutions, and not stay the course in accusations of this president, then Democrats will fail time and time again to be taken in a credible manner.
You also say that we, as Americans, need to refocus on fighting and defeating the terrorist network that attacked this country on September 11, 2001.
Oh, so now they’re terrorists and not the freedom fighters as Mike Moore likes to refer to them, or criminals that Bill Clinton used to refer to them as. So now can we all feel comfortable with that particular definition from Senator Feingold.
One other senator, Barbara Boxer (D-California) has joined Senator Feingold as co-sponsor, and several House members have also called for troop withdrawal to begin by October 2006, but without specifying a deadline for the completion.
They want to pull the troops out of Iraq beginning in October of next year, but don’t have a specific timeline for that to be completed. Isn’t that sort of like the pot calling the kettle black in that they accuse Bush of not having a plan for the troops to exit Iraq, but yet they themselves have no deadline for withdrawing the troops?
White House spokeswoman Dana Perino has said that for the president to set an artificial timetable for withdrawal would send the wrong message to the Iraqis who need to know that the U.S. will not leave before completing the mission, the troops would get the wrong message too.
Senator Feingold, in order to put perspective to his un-definitive plan, and sort of as an “I told you so,” has said the former head of Australia’s armed forces has also called for a pullout by the end of 2006.
Of course CNN and USA TODAY have graciously given us their two cents worth in a poll that reported 33% of Americans favor a withdrawal of all U.S. troops from Iraq, while 54% say the war there was a mistake.
All of us, the troops included, want a complete withdrawal as well, but only when the mission there is complete.
Senator Feingold thinks that a premature troop pullout of Iraq will force this administration to begin to finalize a plan to bring the troops home before the mission is complete.
Instead, this will show the insurgency that should the troops be pulled out too soon, it will be free reign for the insurgency to kill all those who helped the Americans when they were in Iraq.
It will also show them how weak the Democratic Party is when it comes to defending American policy, no matter what war we are fighting.
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