Democrats Can t Decide What They Think About Iraq
Democrats Can t Decide What They Think About Iraq
In the aftershock of Representative Jack Murtha s heartfelt speech, many Democrats, led by Senator John Kerry, have asked the President to withdraw 20,000 troops from Iraq and set a timetable for withdrawing the rest. However, top Democratic foreign policy advisors seem to disagree with many of their members on the proper course of action. Three top strategists from the Clinton Administration, Richard Holbrooke, Madeleine Albright, and Gen. Wesley Clark, argue vehemently against imposing a deadline, timetable or politically driven drawdown on Iraq, as quoted in this Washington Post article today. Uncertainty within the Democratic Party became particularly apparent when President Clinton also disagreed with an automatic withdrawal of troops, saying We don t want to set a fixed timetable Not only is there dissention within the party about their cut and run position, but no one seems to have any concrete alternative strategies to the President s plan as he introduced it last week.