Democrats face off in forum on Spanish-language network Univision

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CNN/AP: September 9, 2007
Democrats face off in forum on spanish language network


The candidates together on stage in Miami.

CORAL GABLES, Fla. (AP) — Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton insisted Sunday night it's time to start pulling U.S. troops out of Iraq as she and her Democratic presidential rivals debated the war on the eve of a much-awaited assessment by U.S. commanding Gen. David Petraeus.

In the first presidential debate ever broadcast in Spanish, the protracted war in Iraq competed for attention with the swirling argument over immigration. At the outset, Gov. Bill Richardson retorted that Clinton's suggestion of a phased withdrawal was not a
workable idea.

"I'd bring them all home within six to eight months," the New Mexico governor said in the debate, which took place in south Florida and was broadcast on Univision, the nation's largest Spanish-language network. "There is a basic difference between all of us here … This is a fundamental issue," he said.

Clinton said that a report being presented in Washington by Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker this week won't change the basic problem that there is no military solution in Iraq. "I believe we should start bringing our troops home," she said. "We need to quit refereeing their civil war and bring our troops home as soon as possible."

All who were asked about immigration at the debate on the campus of the University of Miami said they would address this vexing issue in their first year in office....

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[Bicoastal]

1. No habla espanol...

...um..biblioteca?