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ProSense

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Wed Dec-06-06 11:24 PM
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19. The report clearly draws a line:

Edited on Wed Dec-06-06 11:41 PM by ProSense

Bush vs. timetable. Anyone else who tries to debate otherwise looks foolish. Hayden gets it and is advocating a set deadline.

Others do too:

The Baker Report tries to have it both ways on some crucial issues. While it says it is against a large increase in troops, it then says it “could, however, support a short-term redeployment or surge of American combat forces to stabilize Baghdad, or to speed up the training and equipping mission.”

And while it echoes John Kerry’s 2004 campaign comment that “the President should state that the United States does not seek permanent military bases in Iraq,” the report in the next sentence adds: “If the Iraqi government were to request a temporary base or bases, then the U.S. government could consider that request as it would in the case of any other government.”

If not for Kerry, the debate would be stay or withdraw someday:

Kerry Says, Others Agree - Part 1 and Part 2

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