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From: LindyBill	12/5/2005 6:05:22 PM
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Howard Dean has been committing foreign policy. Betsy's page woai.com; Saying the "idea that we're going to win the war in Iraq is an idea which is just plain wrong," Democratic National Chairman Howard Dean predicted today that the Democratic Party will come together on a proposal to withdraw National Guard and Reserve troops immediately, and all US forces within two years. So, first he comes out saying Americans can't win a war that we're in. Is that really the message that the Democratic Party wants to put forth: defeat is the only option? And then he states his vision of what to do with our troops in Iraq. "I think we need a strategic redeployment over a period of two years," Dean said. "Bring the 80,000 National Guard and Reserve troops home immediately. They don't belong in a conflict like this anyway. We ought to have a redeployment to Afghanistan of 20,000 troops, we don't have enough troops to do the job there and its a place where we are welcome. And we need a force in the Middle East, not in Iraq but in a friendly neighboring country to fight (terrorist leader Musab) Zarkawi, who came to Iraq after this invasion. We've got to get the target off the backs of American troops. Dean didn't specify which country the US forces would deploy to, but he said he would like to see the entire process completed within two years. He said the Democratic proposal is not a 'withdrawal,' but rather a 'strategic redeployment' of U.S. forces. So, picture what will happen after we withdraw our troops and redeploy them to some other country in the region. I guess his idea would be that we could then deploy them back into Iraq if the going got tough there. Or does he just plan to turn Iraq over to Zarqawi and like-minded terrorists? Does Dean really think that it will be any easier to achieve victory in Iraq if we've withdrawn and then at some later date when things become a mess we try to reinsert them? First the Democrats criticize Bush for not putting enough troops into Iraq and now they want to pull them all out. They're going to lose all credibility if they let Dean be their spokesman on this.

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