In the debate last night, Edwards said the following about troops in Iraq:<\/p>\n
I cannot make that commitment. But I — well, I can tell you what i would do as president. When I’m sworn into office, come January of 2009, if there are, in fact, as General Petraeus suggests, 100,000 American troops on the ground in Iraq, I will immediately draw down 40,000 to 50,000 troops; and over the course of the next several months, continue to bring our combat out of Iraq until all of our combat are, in fact, out of Iraq.<\/p>\n
I think the problem is — and it’s what you just heard discussed — is we will maintain an embassy in Baghdad. That embassy has to be protected. We will probably have humanitarian workers in Iraq. Those humanitarian workers have to be protected.<\/p>\n
I think somewhere in the neighborhood of a brigade of troops will be necessary to accomplish that, 3,500 to 5,000 troops.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
I like John Edwards, but he is wrong.<\/p>\n
We do not need the forced labor buil<\/span>t monstrosity of an diplomatic compound that we currently have in Iraq. It’s not an embassy, it’s an imperial outpost.<\/p>\n
It can be moved to a more secure location, and it should be, and if there is none, then it should be closed, like the US Embassy in Somalia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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