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 [howieinseattle] ''Iraqi leaders stand with Democrats, against Republicans'' (UPDATED): It's only Republicans who want to keep us there indefinitely."-from Kos. Update: The AP has a new story out, "Iraqi Leaders Call for Pullout Timetable." Tidbit: "Reaching out to the Sunni Arab community, Iraqi leaders called for a timetable for the withdrawal of U.S.-led forces and said Iraq's opposition had a "legitimate right" of resistance."

 [ScrappleFace] Democrats Call for Cheney Withdrawal Timeline: The move comes a day after Sunnis and Shiites at an Arab-sponsored Iraqi reconciliation summit called for a scheduled withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq.

 [howieinseattle] ''Lawmaker Returns Home, a Hawk Turned War Foe'': Update: From the AP story, "Murtha Says Americans Agree With Him": "Murtha said he specifically asked more liberal members of his party not to step forward to support him because "I didn't want (the public) to think this was a Democrat position plotted from the left wing." And he expressed confidence that terrorist bombings in Iraq would cease once U.S. troops were gone and Iraqis became solely responsible for their destiny."

[TMH’s Bacon Bits] The GOP’s New-found Cohones: As long as the Democrats deny, for purely partisan reasons, that Iraq is a lynchpin in the Global War against Islamic Fundamentalist Terrorism, then they will continue to play right into the hands of the party that truly cares for the safety and prosperity of this nation. Most discriminating folk, if given the facts, can see which party is most engaged in saving the Free World from Islamofascism and promoting freedom.

 [Aquarian Conspirators: ALERTS, NEWS, COMMENTARY, and the occasional Rant] Lawmaker Returns Home, a Hawk Turned War Foe - New York Times: Murtha said he began discussing his growing unease with the military presence in Iraq with longtime advisers, including two retired generals and a former secretary of the Army, whom he would not identify. They urged him not to call publicly for a withdrawal, he said, but as his doubts about the war grew, "they finally came around."

[Seeing the Forest] Iraq and the Nation: Doing The Right Thing (a Green rant): "Resident" Bush still insists that the invasion of Iraq was a necessary part of his 'War on Terror', even though no one outside of his administration and its apologists seriously believe that Iraq played any role whatsoever in the 9/11 attacks or had any serious level of involvement with Al Queda. The Democratic Party's leadership has yet to seriously challenge him on this fundamental point, or to highlight the negative effect the war in Iraq has had on our international standing, and the opinion of the woman and man on the street in Europe, the Middle East, and elsewhere (to say nothing of how it has fanned the flames of radical Arab and Islamic nationalism, and lead to a flood of easy recruits for Al Quada and other terrorist organizations).

 [edstrong.blog-city.com] Murtha's Play with Words: "Redeploy Troops", Not "Bring Them Home": There is no guarantee of what would happen in the event of a U.S. withdrawal, but Murtha noted -- as the anti-war movement has argued since the beginning of the occupation -- that the U.S. presence makes an agreement between contending Iraqi forces and the peaceful unfolding of the political process more difficult.

 [Public Affairs] Leaning Left with Public TV’s “Chicago Tonight.”: Then WTTW’s [Chicago Public TV] Chicago Tonight [“CT”] rolls out its lead major segment tonight [following a brief report on fed money for O'Hare expansion] with a discussion of the current national controversy about how we got into the war in Iraq; did many, if not all, Democrats who supported the war in Iraq have access to intelligence data that was comparable to that viewed by the Bush Administration;

[Blog.pdamerica.org] Blog Links: Representative John Murtha of Pennsylvania, the leading Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee’s defense subcommittee, said as the debate over the war intensified. “Our military is suffering, the future of our country is at risk.”

[Hotlineblog.nationaljournal.com] Hotline On Call: GOP Tries To Call Murtha's "Bluff": I must admit, though, that I share Owens' view that sympathy is easier to feel for someone raised in an oppressive, maybe even fascist environment, who is taught by his parents, his religious leaders, his culture and his peers to hate - than it is to feel for some of our "hateful" Democrats. These Democrats have been fairly exposed to both the positive doctrines of freedom and liberty - and to the hateful doctrines of self-loathing and hate-based politics against anything associated with Bush.

 [Americablog.blogspot.com] AMERICAblog: Because a great nation deserves the truth: Many of them understand that dwindling public support could force the United States into a self-defeating position, and that defeat in Iraq would be disastrous for the United States as well as for Mahdi and his countrymen. But the taste of political blood as Bush weakens, combined with their embarrassment at having supported the war in the first place, seems to override that understanding.You see, the Washington Post is more interested in currying favor with the Bush administration ever since Katherine Graham died.

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