Democrats: Bush must show Iraq plan before elections

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Democrats: Bush must show Iraq plan before elections
By Philip Barbara

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Key Senate Democrats urged the White House on Sunday not to wait until after the U.S. congressional elections in two weeks to give the Iraqi government a timetable to assume a larger role in securing the country.

The top Democrat on the Armed Services Committee, Sen. Carl Levin (news, bio, voting record), said the Iraq strategy blueprint reportedly being drafted for President George W. Bush specifying ways to reduce sectarian violence should also include a schedule for pulling out U.S. forces.

"We shouldn't wait 'til the end of the year to come up with milestones. We ought to be doing that now. We should have done it long ago," Levin of Michigan said on "Fox News Sunday."

Voter discontent with the Iraq war is one of the main reasons Bush's Republicans are said to be increasingly at risk of losing control of both the House of Representatives and the Senate in the November 7 elections.

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[yourout]

1. I want to see his plan for Iran.

Iraq will end up as three separate counties. It's not a matter of if.....it's only a matter of when.

[The Wielding Truth]

4. If the Repukes win he won't have to change anything.

Rove will just keep everyone off balance until and if they win the house then back to usual. We must take our Country Back. This is a fight for Democracy!:mad: :kick:

[babylonsister]

2. Gee. When was the last time Il Dunce took the Dems' advice? nt

[Zybelline]

3. like Nixon's election promise of "secret plan" to get us out of Vietnam !

Senator Levin and the Dems should start getting snarky with this bastard and keep hammering the point of parallels with Vietnam quagmire

Bush/Jim Baker report only due out AFTER elections is just like Nixon who before elections promised he had a "secret plan"

american voters fell for it... Nixon's "secret plan" dragged on for years, eventually included illegal bombing in Laos and Cambodia, as Kissinger well remembers ( shame, shame )

[MadMaddie]

5. Since he never had a plan....and he is incapable of

actually listening to his Generals on the ground...now he is saying he never said "stay the course"....you can expect more of the same for the next two years...