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Ärende: Iraq
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The Democrats are bound and determined to run out of Iraq and turn it 
into Vietnam so they can say "I told you so".  They don't lie well.

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http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/11/09/D8LA01L00.html

McGovern to Meet With Congress on War
Nov 09 11:31 PM US/Eastern
   
By OSKAR GARCIA
Associated Press Writer

LINCOLN, Neb.


George McGovern, the former senator and Democratic presidential 
candidate, said Thursday that he will meet with more than 60 members of 
Congress next week to recommend a strategy to remove U.S. troops from 
Iraq by June. 

If Democrats don't take steps to end the war in Iraq soon, they won't be 
in power very long, McGovern told reporters before a speech at the 
University of Nebraska-Lincoln. 
 

"I think the Democratic leadership is wise enough to know that if 
they're going to follow the message that election sent, they're going to 
have to take steps to bring the war to a conclusion," he said. 

McGovern will present his recommendations before the Congressional 
Progressive Caucus, a 62-member group led by Reps. Lynn Woolsey and 
Barbara Lee. 

"The best way to reduce this insurgency is to get the American forces 
out of there," McGovern said. "That's what's driving this insurgency." 

McGovern told the audience Thursday that the Iraq and Vietnam wars were 
equally "foolish enterprises" and that the current threat of terrorism 
developed because _ not before _ the United States went into Iraq. 

McGovern's plan _ as written in his new book, "Out of Iraq: A Practical 
Plan for Withdrawal Now" _ also calls for the United States to remove 
hired mercenaries from the region, push for the removal of British 
troops and establish a temporary transitional force, similar to police, 
made up of Muslims from the region. 

"I've talked with a lot of senior officers _ generals and admirals _ in 
preparation for this book, that say this war can't be won, that the 
problems now are not military problems," McGovern told reporters. "There 
isn't going to be any decisive victory in Iraq." 

It is vital that Republican and Democratic legislators find common 
ground with one another and President Bush, McGovern said. 

"Never let the new class of Democrats forget that they're there in 
considerable part because of the war the American public has now turned 
against," McGovern said. "That's going to have to be something that they 
have to explore with Republicans and with the White House." 

McGovern, a former South Dakota congressman and senator, was a leading 
opponent of the war in Vietnam. He was the Democratic nominee for 
president in 1972, losing to Richard Nixon, and was ambassador to the 
U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization in Rome from 1998 to 2001. 

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