Ill. Democrat: Bush Iraq plan is broken (radio address)

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Source: Associated Press

President Bush's strategy in Iraq isn't working, a Democratic congresswoman said Saturday as she repeated calls to start withdrawing U.S. troops.

Rep. Jan Schakowsky, D-Ill., who visited Iraq with a congressional delegation in August, delivered her party's weekly radio address. She said this year's buildup in U.S. troops "failed to achieve its main goal — reducing the violence so that progress could be made on key political benchmarks."

Schakowsky said Gen. David Petraeus, commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, told the delegation that the United States will be in Iraq for another nine or 10 years. "That was not the timetable I nor most Americans had in mind," the congresswoman said.

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"With the president stubbornly continuing to stay the course in Iraq, I urge my Republican colleagues to join with Democrats and the vast majority of Americans who are demanding a new direction," she said.



Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070901/ap_on_go_co/democrats_iraq

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Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky Delivers Radio Address
http://www.dnc.org/a/2007/09/congresswoman_j.php

[rodeodance]

1. she is a good person and has worked hard to get the troops out.

[onewholaughsatfools]

3. not this it's hard work line

there's a difference between hard work and getting things done, than hard work and spinning your wheels. She has only been spinning her wheels as all other Dem's have been doing. it's pretty damn easy to get the troops out. STOP THE FRIGGIN FUNDING!!!!!!!!

[kurth]

2. The TRILLIONS we could have saved by not babysitting Iraq

or killing Iraqis.

[DeepModem Mom]

4. K&R