Americans won't let Democrats lose Iraq - Los Angeles Times

Americans won't let Democrats lose Iraq - Los Angeles Times: "A FEW DAYS AGO, Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) made a speech urging the U.S., in effect, to get out of Iraq the way we got out of Vietnam.



Leahy told the Senate that we cannot win in Iraq. 'It has become increasingly apparent that the most powerful army in the world cannot stop a determined insurgency.' (U.S. troops, Iraqi troops, long-suffering Iraqi civilians to Leahy: Thanks, senator, we needed that.) And Leahy announced that the president must lay out a public formula to tell the world just when U.S. troops will leave Iraq. Otherwise, Leahy said, he will urge the Senate to choke off the war by refusing to fund it. That's how the U.S. finally lost Vietnam: Congress snuffed out the money.

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