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Thursday, August 18, 2005

Finally, Someone with a set of Cahones!

It's about time someone quits quakeing in their boots & approaches King Geo w/ the news that 'we're mad as hell, and we aren't going to take it anymore.'
This is the ONLY way the GOP currently in office are going to be able to keep their jobs. And the Dems should be playing their hand in every way possible. (Rather than pouting, in-fighting, demurring, & running scared.)
Go Russell!
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Feingold Urges Troop Withdrawal by End of '06
By Peter Baker
The Washington Post

Thursday 18 August 2005

Sen. Russell Feingold (D-Wis.) called on the White House yesterday to withdraw all US forces from Iraq by the end of next year and criticized fellow Democrats for being too "timid" in challenging the Bush administration's war policy.

Feingold, who is among the Democrats considering a run for president in 2008, became the first senator to propose a specific deadline for pulling all 138,000 US troops out of Iraq. His comments also laid bare the rising tension within his party about how to respond to President Bush on the war.

Although critical of the administration's handling of the war, many leading Democratic lawmakers have been reluctant to press for a concrete timetable for withdrawal, agreeing with Bush that it could harm the war effort. Many congressional Democrats voted in 2002 to grant Bush authority to invade Iraq, but their liberal base has grown increasingly vocal in opposition to the war, making it difficult to send a consensus message. But as Bush's poll numbers have fallen, some Democrats have grown increasingly outspoken.

In a telephone interview from Wisconsin, Feingold said he has heard a wave of public disenchantment at 15 town hall meetings so far during the August recess, leading him to propose a Dec. 31, 2006, deadline.

"There's a deepening feeling of dismay in the country about the way things are going in Iraq," Feingold said. He rejected Bush's assertion that a deadline would make it easier for insurgents to simply hang on. "I think he's wrong. I think not talking about endgames is playing into our enemies' hand."

The White House had no comment, except to point to Bush's past statements rejecting a withdrawal timetable, a position shared by Senate Minority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.). "Like other members of the caucus, he's been calling for some benchmarks from the administration to measure progress," Reid spokesman Jim Manley said, "but he is opposed to setting a date certain for withdrawal, concerned that would undercut the troops."

Feingold is the first senator to call for a specific deadline, but several members of the House have introduced a resolution calling on Bush to initiate a withdrawal no later than Oct. 1, 2006. In a speech in January, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) called on the president to pull out all troops "as early as possible in 2006."

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Comments:
Hi there, missing you. I hope it get's sorted out.

I agree, it's about time someone spoke out and offered America an alternative Middle East agenda.
 
I think the deadline should be December of this year! I think it is time for us to make like the sixties and do some major demonstrations.
 
I'd love to see some more demonstrations, Lord knows I took to the streets here in Seattle prior to the invasion.

What poor planning. To go into something without a flying clue on how to get out of it.
 
Thanks for sharing your pics Mark, they're great! Blogger is working on my dilemma.

Yes, JC you're right. They should've been home yesterday! And in the least, should back off new attacks, & simply deal w/ the mess already created. Start some rebuilding plans & then get the heck out, to allow those poor people to put their pieces back together. We broke it.. we can't fix it. Leave them the wherewithal to do it for themselves.

I think we're going to see more ground swell in the demonstration dept, Miss World. If one gal in Crawford can make this much difference, how can we not? It certainly has their attn anyway.
 
I am still waiting to hear the magic word, impeachment hearings!!
But I think the picture on my site pretty much sums up my feelings toward Pres. Shrub.
 
You all need to go to Sandi's site & see the changling-Mr Prez..ha
It's great.
 
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