[Vision2020] GOP Senators Urge New US Plan in Iraq

[Tom Hansen]

>From today's (October 16, 2006) Miami Herald at:

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/world/15769030.htm

"'The American people are not going to continue to support, sustain a policy
that puts American troops in the middle of a civil war,' Hagel said on CNN's
Late Edition."

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GOP senators urge new U.S. plan in Iraq

BY NEDRA PICKLER
Associated Press

WASHINGTON - Two leading Republican senators called Sunday for a new
strategy in Iraq, saying the situation is getting worse and leaving the
United States with few options.

Sens. Chuck Hagel of Nebraska and John Warner of Virginia are part of the
growing list of Republicans who are speaking out against President Bush's
current plan for Iraq as U.S. casualties rise.

''The American people are not going to continue to support, sustain a policy
that puts American troops in the middle of a civil war,'' Hagel said on
CNN's Late Edition.

Hagel said he agreed with Warner, chairman of the Senate Armed Services
Committee, who said after a recent visit to Iraq that Iraq was ''drifting
sideways.'' Warner has urged consideration of a change of course if the
Iraqi government fails to restore order over the next two to three months.

Warner said Sunday he stands by that assessment, and even in the week since
his trip to Iraq, there has been an ``exponential increase in the killings
and the savagery that's going on over there.''

Also Sunday, Rep. John Murtha, a decorated Marine veteran who favors
withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq, criticized Republicans for referring to
him and other war opponents as ``Defeatocrats.''

In an opinion piece for The Washington Post, Murtha said Vice President Dick
Cheney, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and others in the White House
have called Iraq war opponents appeasers and pessimists and labeled
Democrats the ''cut and run'' party.

''It's all baseless name-calling, and it's all wrong,'' wrote Murtha, a
Pennsylvania Democrat.

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Seeya round town, Moscow.

Tom Hansen
Vandalville, Idaho

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