TodaZeD 'Splain it to me Lucy
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Is this “threaten ‘em?” ..."screw ‘em?” ..."g’head and give it to the Iranians?”
[Retired Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez] has thrown his support behind a war funding bill proposed by Democrats that calls for withdrawing most combat troops by the end of next year.
“The keys to securing the future of Iraq are aggressive regional diplomacy, political reconciliation and economic hope,...
“Yet, as our current commanders in Iraq have recently noted, the improvements in security produced by the courage and blood of our troops have not been matched by a willingness on the part of Iraqi leaders to make the hard choices necessary to bring peace to their country,...
“There is no evidence that the Iraqis will choose to do so in the near future or that we have an ability to force that result....
“The funding bill passed by the House of Representatives last week, with a bipartisan vote, makes the proper preparation of our deploying troops a priority and requires the type of shift in their mission that will allow their numbers to be reduced substantially,"
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