Dems don't guarantee troop cut in Iraq

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  1. MikeDC

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    http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/stor...6952485,00.html</p>

    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'><font size="2" face="Geneva,Arial,sans-serif">The leading Democratic White House hopefuls conceded Wednesday night they cannot guarantee to pull all U.S. combat troops from Iraq by the end of the next presidential term in 2013. </font></p>

    <font size="2" face="Geneva,Arial,sans-serif">``I think it's hard to project four years from now,'' said Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois in the opening moments of a campaign debate in the nation's first primary state. </font></p>

    <font size="2" face="Geneva,Arial,sans-serif">``It is very difficult to know what we're going to be inheriting,'' added Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York. </font></p>

    <font size="2" face="Geneva,Arial,sans-serif">``I cannot make that commitment,'' said former Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina.</div></font></p>
     
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    If they were committed to removing troops, refusing to spend further funds is the constitutional route to pursue. Naturally, they won't do so, because politics trump principles. (Not that they have actual principles, mind you)</p>
     
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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (AEM)</div><div class='quotemain'></p>

    If they were committed to removing troops, refusing to spend further funds is the constitutional route to pursue. Naturally, they won't do so, because politics trump principles. (Not that they have actual principles, mind you)</p>

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    LOL, it's a case of politics trumps politics</p>

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    It's a case of the Dems using reverse psychology.</p>
     

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