Senate Democrats are trying to adopt a resolution that would set a deadline for withdrawal of troops from Iraq. On the Senate floor yesterday, Minority Leader Mitch McConnell quoted leading Senate Democrats who have acknolwedged, in the recent past, that setting such a deadline would be destructive and would help the terrorists. He has reproduced his speech on his web site:
Speaking at the National Press Club in 2005, my good friend the Majority Leader himself said this: “As for setting a timeline, as we learned in the Balkans, that
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