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Democrats Shift Debate to Iraq Endgame

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Democrats Shift Debate to Iraq Endgame


By Paul Richter
The Los Angeles Times
Friday 09 March 2007

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http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/030907A.shtml
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-assess9mar09,0,7718717.story?coll=la-home-headlines

Their argument offers the public a choice: Stay indefinitely as Bush urges or shift US soldiers into a secondary role.

Washington - The new Democratic proposals for Iraq may eventually be weakened or killed, but in one stroke they have transformed a many-sided debate about the conflict into a sharp-edged argument about the endgame.

Ever since the midterm election signaled deepening public unhappiness with the war, Republicans have urged a push toward victory while Democrats have complained about the administration's course but not gathered around a single alternative.

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