Reply #12: Edwards is calling to bring the troops home [View All]

HERE and NOW:

Edwards is calling to bring our troops home now with a pullout of 50k immediately and the remaining within 18 months, unlike prospective candidates Clark and Hillary. Clark said we should not start bringing the troops home now and Hillary pretty much stands totally with Bush on this issue too.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/11/28/clark.presidential.ap/index.html?section=cnn_latest

Clark: "Neither would he begin reducing U.S. forces in Iraq within the next six months, as others have suggested.

"It's not a matter of fiddling with troop levels," Clark said

http://oneamericacommittee.com/news/headlines/wp20051113/

The Right Way in Iraq

An Op-Ed by Senator John Edwards
Washington Post
Nov 13, 2005

I was wrong.

Almost three years ago we went into Iraq to remove what we were told — and what many of us believed and argued — was a threat to America. But in fact we now know that Iraq did not have weapons of mass destruction when our forces invaded Iraq in 2003. The intelligence was deeply flawed and, in some cases, manipulated to fit a political agenda.

It was a mistake to vote for this war in 2002. I take responsibility for that mistake. It has been hard to say these words because those who didn't make a mistake — the men and women of our armed forces and their families — have performed heroically and paid a dear price.

The world desperately needs moral leadership from America, and the foundation for moral leadership is telling the truth.

While we can't change the past, we need to accept responsibility, because a key part of restoring America's moral leadership is acknowledging when we've made mistakes or been proven wrong — and showing that we have the creativity and guts to make it right.