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Senator Dick Durbin Doesn't Want the U.S. Involved In Iran, As Well


Iran's harsh rhetoric on its nuclear future has some wondering if it's time to consider committing U.S. troops there as well as in Iraq and Afghanistan. But Senator Dick Durbin is not among them.

Durbin says the Bush administration has mishandled the Iraqi conflict from the beginning, and says that the continuing U.S. presence is creating new problems.

"Some people have a voracious appetite to keep our military in the field invading countries. I'm not one of them," Durbin said. "That is the last thing that we want to do.

Durbin said he believes the U.S. first should exhaust all non-military means of keeping the Iranian government from acquiring nuclear weapons and of blocking its assistance to radical Islamist groups.

"This idea that we'll just mount up and ride to the battle (doesn't work)," Durbin said. "I think we've learned a bitter lesson in Iraq. It is a much more complicated undertaking than some people make it."

Instead of charging ahead, Durbin said he believes the U.S. government must take a step back to assess what is most prudent.

He said the Iraqi invasion has gone "terribly bad."

"We've lost over 3,300 American soldiers, spent over $500 billion, have many injured soldiers coming home and many still in the field," he said. "This war is far from over. That was an invasion that was supposed to be quick."

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