White House rebuffs call for troop withdrawal in Iraq (CNN)

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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- With a top Democrat calling for a "phased redeployment" of U.S. troops in Iraq, President Bush met Monday with a commission studying the war and said conditions in Iraq, not politics, would dictate troop levels there.

Sen. Carl Levin of Michigan, who is expected to chair the Armed Service Committee in January when Democrats take control of Congress, said redeploying troops would prompt the Iraqis to take more expeditious steps to ending the war.

"We cannot save the Iraqis from themselves," Levin said. "We've been told repeatedly by our top uniformed military leaders that there is no purely military solution in Iraq; there is only a political solution in Iraq." (Watch how Levin suggests proving U.S. troops will not be in Iraq forever -- 1:27 )

The Michigan senator said only Iraqis could determine the course for their country: "They and they alone are going to decide whether they're going to have a nation or whether they're going to have an all-out civil war."

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http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/11/13/iraq.next/index.html

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Chimpy doesn't seem to understand that "conditions in Iraq" are not going to be improving by measurable benchmarks unless he changes policy. The current one didn't work for his brother and sister Republicans, it didn't work for the American people as a whole, and it isn't working for the Iraqi people.

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1. Chimpy doesn't seem to understand much of anything related to

physical reality or Common Sense, IMO.

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2. Dear Mr. Bush. Iraq is lost, you lost it. You can't fix it. Time for it to end.