Democrats Cite Report On Troop Cuts in Iraq

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By Michael Abramowitz and Thomas E. Ricks
Washington Post Staff Writers
Monday, June 26, 2006

Senate Democrats reacted angrily yesterday to a report that the U.S. commander in Iraq had privately presented a plan for significant troop reductions in the same week they came under attack by Republicans for trying to set a timetable for withdrawal.

Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) said that the plan attributed to Gen. George W. Casey resembles the thinking of many Democrats who voted for a nonbinding resolution to begin a troop drawdown in December. That resolution was defeated on a largely party-line vote in the Senate on Thursday.

"That means the only people who have fought us and fought us against the timetable, the only ones still saying there shouldn't be a timetable really are the Republicans in the United States Senate and in the Congress," Boxer said on CBS's "Face the Nation." "Now it turns out we're in sync with General Casey."

Sen. Carl M. Levin (Mich.), one of the two sponsors of the nonbinding resolution, which offered no pace or completion date for a withdrawal, said the report is another sign of what he termed one of the "worst-kept secrets in town" -- that the administration intends to pull out troops before the midterm elections in November.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/25/AR2006062500764.html

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Democrats should be jumping on this. There is a UN timetable reached through negotiation for troop withdrawal. There is absolutely no way that timetable could have been drawn up without at least some input from U.S. negotiators.

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1. kick and nominating - all DU eyes outta see n/t

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2. Wait a minute - I thought The Washington Post was a part of the,,,

"bought and paid for corporatist media." A DAY ago they wouldn't DARE print such an article. Have they seen the light? :sarcasm: