Kerry demands US troop pullout
Boston Globe
06/14/06
Senator John F. Kerry is placing himself at the center of congressional action over the war in Iraq this week with a crisply worded resolution to require President Bush to withdraw almost all US troops by the end of this year. The measure has exposed Kerry to attacks from Republicans and some Democrats, as critics rushed to tag the plan as a 'cut-and-run' strategy. But it also has made him a rallying point for antiwar activists. The sweeping resolution amounts to the senator's sharpest condemnation of the war and his broadest repudiation of his own vote to authorize force. It also stands in contrast to his handling of the war issue during his campaign for president two years ago... [editor's note: This means he IS running for President in 2008; otherwise, he would not be making this stand - SAT]
http://tinyurl.com/mavr7
Bush rejects calls for Iraq pullout
Bend Bulletin
06/14/06
President Bush, just back from Iraq, dismissed calls for a U.S. withdrawal as election-year politics and refused to give a timetable or benchmark for success that would allow troops to come home. 'It's bad policy,' Bush said in a Rose Garden news conference Wednesday, about six hours after he returned from Iraq. 'I know it may sound good politically. It will endanger our country to pull out of Iraq before we accomplish the mission'...
http://tinyurl.com/l9vaq
Top Dems' split on Iraq shows party's struggle
San Francisco Chronicle
06/14/06
In a span of 90 minutes Tuesday, three prominent Democrats offered competing visions of how to proceed in Iraq and displayed how difficult it will be to turn what was once the Republican Party's strongest asset into its electoral downfall. ... Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York, a leading contender for the Democratic Party's 2008 presidential nomination, told a gathering of nearly 2,000 liberals that the war was a 'strategic blunder' but warned it would not be in the nation's interest to 'set a date certain' for withdrawal. She was followed by House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco, who told the same group the war was a 'grotesque mistake' and that troops should be withdrawn 'at the earliest practical date.' Moments later, Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts, the party's standard bearer in 2004, said he had made a mistake by voting to authorize the president to use military force in Iraq, and he called for a 'hard and fast deadline' for troop withdrawal...
http://tinyurl.com/ljutu
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
06/14/06
Senator John F. Kerry is placing himself at the center of congressional action over the war in Iraq this week with a crisply worded resolution to require President Bush to withdraw almost all US troops by the end of this year. The measure has exposed Kerry to attacks from Republicans and some Democrats, as critics rushed to tag the plan as a 'cut-and-run' strategy. But it also has made him a rallying point for antiwar activists. The sweeping resolution amounts to the senator's sharpest condemnation of the war and his broadest repudiation of his own vote to authorize force. It also stands in contrast to his handling of the war issue during his campaign for president two years ago... [editor's note: This means he IS running for President in 2008; otherwise, he would not be making this stand - SAT]
http://tinyurl.com/mavr7
Bush rejects calls for Iraq pullout
Bend Bulletin
06/14/06
President Bush, just back from Iraq, dismissed calls for a U.S. withdrawal as election-year politics and refused to give a timetable or benchmark for success that would allow troops to come home. 'It's bad policy,' Bush said in a Rose Garden news conference Wednesday, about six hours after he returned from Iraq. 'I know it may sound good politically. It will endanger our country to pull out of Iraq before we accomplish the mission'...
http://tinyurl.com/l9vaq
Top Dems' split on Iraq shows party's struggle
San Francisco Chronicle
06/14/06
In a span of 90 minutes Tuesday, three prominent Democrats offered competing visions of how to proceed in Iraq and displayed how difficult it will be to turn what was once the Republican Party's strongest asset into its electoral downfall. ... Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York, a leading contender for the Democratic Party's 2008 presidential nomination, told a gathering of nearly 2,000 liberals that the war was a 'strategic blunder' but warned it would not be in the nation's interest to 'set a date certain' for withdrawal. She was followed by House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco, who told the same group the war was a 'grotesque mistake' and that troops should be withdrawn 'at the earliest practical date.' Moments later, Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts, the party's standard bearer in 2004, said he had made a mistake by voting to authorize the president to use military force in Iraq, and he called for a 'hard and fast deadline' for troop withdrawal...
http://tinyurl.com/ljutu
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
rudkla - 15. Jun, 15:23
