I mentioned yesterday that I held a sign saying "Support the Troops. Bring Them Home." I borrowed the sign, and I couldn't have held it if it had said "Bring Them Home Now."
Of course, an abrupt pullout of U.S. troops from Iraq would be a disaster. (I'm not saying we don't already have a disaster on our hands, mind you; I just believe an immediate withdrawal would compound the chaos.) What we need is a timetable. Bush won't give us one; indeed, his comments yesterday made it clear that troops will be in Iraq as long as he's in the White House. I'm in the Russ Feingold camp on this one - let's aim to have most U.S. troops home from Iraq by the end of next year. Rather than encouraging the insurgency, as BushCo maintain, a definite timetable will help Iraqis become more serious about controlling their own destiny.
I agree... I don't see how we can bring them home "tomorrow"... we do have SOME obligation to clean up after ourselves. However, I don't care what the plan is, as long as Bush and Co. is in charge, I will NOT trust it! We need them OUT so leaders with intelligence, ethics, morality, and compassion (not ego, arrogance, and greed) can be in charge!
Posted by: Diana Rowe Pauls | August 26, 2005 at 08:24 PM