42 Democrats Put Focus on Getting Troops Out of Iraq

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Source: Washington Post

42 Democrats Put Focus on Getting Troops Out of Iraq

By Paul Kane
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, March 28, 2008; A03

More than three dozen Democratic congressional candidates banded together yesterday to promise that, if elected, they will push for legislation calling for an immediate drawdown of troops in Iraq that would leave only a security force in place to guard the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad.

Rejecting their party leaders' assertions that economic troubles have become the top issue on voters' minds, leaders of the coalition of 38 House and four Senate candidates pledged to make immediate withdrawal from Iraq the centerpiece of their campaigns.

"The people inside the Beltway don't seem to get how big an issue this is," said Darcy Burner, a repeat candidate who narrowly lost to Rep. Dave Reichert (R-Wash.) in 2006.

The group's 36-page plan does not set a specific deadline for when all combat troops must be out of Iraq. "Begin it now, do it as safely as you can and get everyone out," Burner said.

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/27/AR2008032702963.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/iraq

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1. The Democrats think the "economy" is a bigger issue than Iraq !!!

Obama has said very clearly that we have this economic chaos because of Iraq --- in large part.
Granted, corruption is destroying the economy as it is destroying government -- and Treasury.

Hope the anti-war people get behind these candidates --- we should start a fund for them -- !!
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2. Exactly

The sooner people accept that the current state of the economy is inextricably linked to the sink-hole that is Iraq, the sooner we can move to get out of this mess.