Republicans Must Vote to Get Troops Out of Iraq, Veteran Says

[Barrett808]

Source: Bloomberg

Republicans Must Vote to Get Troops Out of Iraq, Veteran Says
Shobhana Chandra
Sat Jul 14, 11:06 AM ET

July 14 (Bloomberg) -- Senate Republicans must vote with the Democratic majority in Congress to redeploy U.S. troops from Iraq, and President George W. Bush should support bringing the troops home, a veteran of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan said.

Repeated deployments in Iraq have taken a ``staggering toll'' on U.S. military readiness, posing ``a dangerous threat to our national security,'' Brandon Friedman, a former infantry officer in the Army's 101st Airborne Division, said in the Democratic Party's weekly radio address.

``The escalation of the Iraq war is failing and now the mission must change,'' said Friedman, who led a platoon into Afghanistan in 2002 to battle Taliban and al-Qaeda, and a year later commanded troops during the Iraq invasion.

Republican Senators John Warner of Virginia and Richard Lugar of Indiana yesterday proposed legislation that would require the Bush administration to plan for a redeployment of troops from Iraq beginning this year. The House of Representatives already voted on July 12 to redeploy the troops.

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[Captain Hilts]

1. And people who voted for them also. We're barely exceeding Kerry's vote totals...

in opposition to what Prez. Bush is doing.