Senator Dodd: Surge 'won't solve any problems'; Time to withdraw

[TexasLawyer]

Senator Dodd: Surge 'won't solve any problems'; Time to withdraw

RAW STORY
Published: Sunday December 24, 2006

Senator Christopher Dodd (D-CT) believes that a potential U.S. troop surge "won't solve any problems" and is calling for a withdrawal from Iraq.

Dodd, who is weighing a presidential run, wrote an Op-Ed for the Des Moines Register on Sunday, declaring that "the time has come for the United States to begin the process of getting our troops out."

The Democratic Senator quotes a West Point graduate serving in Iraq whom he met on a recent trip to Baghdad: "Senator, it is nuts over here. Soldiers are being asked to do work we're not trained to do. I'm doing work that State Department people are far more prepared to do in fostering democracy, but they're not allowed to come off the bases because it's too dangerous here. It doesn't make any sense."

Dodd believes that "the proposal being considered by the administration to add between 15,000 and 30,000 soldiers in a 'surge' of American troops will do nothing to address this issue."

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[IndianaGreen]

1. And Chris Dodd is not some "wild eyed antiwar" protester

but a Washington establishment figure that realizes that Bush will make a bad situation worse, a "Stalingrad on the Tigris" as someone called Bush's version of the Battle of the Bulge.

Let's not go along Bush's Last Stand.

[nashville_brook]

4. my thought exactly

k n r

[truthisfreedom]

2. "bush's last stand." That just about sums it up, doesn't it?

[IndianaGreen]

3. And we know what happened at the other George's Last Stand

Democratic Congress should hold hearings on Bush's "surge" before he goes ahead with it. We will be saving lives if we stop him from this madness.

[TexasLawyer]

5. pure poetry

very well said. I hope that BushCo is paying attention!

"If anything, 'surge' is a tactic in search of a strategy," Dodd writes.
"How does it lead to victory? It won't solve any problems; it won't force
the hands of Iraq's leaders; at best, it will simply be one more reason for delay --
a delay that will be paid with American blood. That's a price our troops and
our nation shouldn't be asked to pay any longer."

[Imagevision]

6. Using the Iraq war again in another election, - right out of; "The Good Sheperd"