Monday, December 18, 2006

Powell :: US Losing In Iraq

Cut and Run

You know this is gonna put him next to Kerry in the line of traitors who want to "Cut and Run"...   Will he regain some credibility with the average American who is in favor of his ideas as well as the Iraq Study Group's recommendations?   At least he is putting himself on the right side of history now.   His compliance in the run up to the war is another matter as far as I am concerned.   - fc


washingtonpost.com
Powell Says U.S. Losing in Iraq,
Calls for Drawdown by Mid-2007


By Karen DeYoung

Washington Post Staff Writer

Monday, December 18, 2006; Page A20



Former secretary of state Colin L. Powell said yesterday that the United States is losing what he described as a "civil war" in Iraq and that he is not persuaded that an increase in U.S. troops there would reverse the situation. Instead, he called for a new strategy that would relinquish responsibility for Iraqi security to the government in Baghdad sooner rather than later, with a U.S. drawdown to begin by the middle of next year.


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