Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) said that the plan attributed to Gen. George W. Casey resembles the thinking of many Democrats who voted for a nonbinding resolution to begin a troop drawdown in December. That resolution was defeated on a largely party-line vote in the Senate on Thursday.
"That means the only people who have fought us and fought us against the timetable, the only ones still saying there shouldn't be a timetable really are the Republicans in the United States Senate and in the Congress," Boxer said on CBS's "Face the Nation." "Now it turns out we're in sync with General Casey."
Okay seriously, Gen. Casey is obviously not a "defeatist" or "cut and runner" or "wuss", etc. But considering how he appears to be presenting plans for reducing troop levels in Iraq-surely not at his own initiative-while at the same time Democrats are merely discussing plans for reducing troop levels in Iraq, makes you wonder just how its Republican politicians and their storm trooper bloggers on the right can be accusing Democrats of being willing to bail on Iraq. Really, it is a bit incongruous.
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Democrats couldn't have asked for better. The same weak they cast votes for at least some degree on troop withdrawal, the Iraqi PM and General Casey both call for the same, inoculating them from any (reasonable) Republican attack.
Eleven insurgent groups promise ceasefire if US agrees to withdraw in 2 years:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060628/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq
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