Dodd Proposes Shift In Iraq

[sabra]

http://www.courant.com/news/local/hc-ctdodd1013.artoct13,0,5625811.story

Dodd Proposes Shift In Iraq

PROVIDENCE -- U.S. Sen. Christopher J. Dodd Thursday altered his course on Iraq, calling for a goal of repositioning U.S. troops from current Iraqi positions beginning immediately and finishing within 12 to 18 months.

Dodd, D-Conn., earlier this year had joined most other Democratic senators in rejecting precise timetables, calling instead for the beginning of phased redeployment by the end of this year.

But, he told students, faculty and alumni in a speech at Providence College: "The hour has arrived when Iraq must assume the responsibility of policing itself."

He offered a blueprint of how he would redeploy U. S. troops now in Iraq.

"We must begin immediately to reposition our troops from Baghdad, Fallujah and other large urban centers," he said, to Kurdistan and other less populated areas of Iraq.

[kenny blankenship]

1. Nice to see empire is still a bipartisan project

Dodd can choke on shit.

[mike_c]

2. agreed-- America out of Iraq NOW!

"repositioning" is just code speak for "continued occupation."

edit-- oops, I meant to reply to #1

[Peace Patriot]

3. Dodd, who gave us Bushite corporations "counting" all our votes with

TRADE SECRET, PROPRIETARY programming code, in alliance with the biggest crooks in the Anthrax Congress, Tom Delay and Bob Ney (both now indicted for bribery and resigned in disgrace), is a major asshole and democracy-killer, and needs to be stopped. Some weeks ago he announced his exploratory campaign for president, on the Al Franken Show (with a substitute host). He said Hillary's "in trouble with the antiwar crowd," and we don't want "losers" running (Gore, Kerry), and that leaves him.

He may well be the global corporate predators' stealth candidate. Besides his destruction of our election system, he's a regular attendee of the secretive Bilderberg Group meetings, where CEOs and rightwing billionaires decide our future. Diebold/ES&S is fully capable of installing him in the White House. That may be what their coup over our election system is all about.

I get a real sick hit off of him. Forgive me. I was raised a Catholic and had to put up with this type of unctious Irish male prancing around the altar in their satin and lace vestments, and playing the little lords of God Almighty. He has that odor of incense and 1,000 year old corruption. We might as well have the Pope as president.

He is merely sniffing the wind, with his phony "redeployment" plan for Iraq. I swear, the man could snuff out half a milion lives without a thought, just like Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld. The creeps. The willies. That's what I feel.

And the "Help America Vote Act" was UNFORGIVABLE.