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 I strongly support setting a withdrawal timetable for US troops to leave Iraq

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“In 2004 I urged a six-month negotiated withdrawal of all U.S. soldiers and corporate contractors from Iraq, with UN sponsored elections [and] a certain amount of autonomy between Sunnis, Shites, and Kurds…and continued humanitarian aide because of what we’ve done to the devastated people of Iraq. I think that will knock the bottom out of the insurgency. It will end the $14 million dollars an hour we’re spending, 24 hours a day. Bring that money back home, put it into public works…”

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On Iraq, Ralph Nader supports the rapid and responsible withdrawal of US military forces, civilian military contractors, and US corporate interests from Iraq.

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"We want to have a responsible six-month withdrawal of the US military and corporate occupation, and an internationally supervised election, so that the Iraqi people don't feel that they're facing a permanent military occupation and the control of their oil resources and of public government. If they feel that, the majority of the Iraqis are going to support the insurgency. They're not going to distance themselves from the insurgency."

NPR, "Justice Talking" Dean-Nader Debate Jul 9, 2004

"There’s got to be much more aggressive moves by Congress, maybe reflected in Congressman Jim McGovern’s bill, which will deal with the appropriations process and protect the soldiers, as they withdraw. If we don’t withdraw on a timetable, our military and corporate occupation of Iraq, including the oil industry, the bottom will never fall out of the insurgency."

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 I oppose the increase in US troop levels in Iraq which has been ongoing throughout 2007

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Retired Army Maj. General Paul D. Eaton said the post-invasion effort in Iraq is about 60,000 troops short of what it needs for success and that the Army "is in terrible shape," lacking proper equipment and resources. President Bush should never have invaded Iraq, but whenever troops are deployed they should be at levels which are necessary to protect the civilian population--an obligation military occupiers are required, under international law, to fulfill.

Open letter by Ralph Nader and Kevin Zeese Nov 2, 2006

In an article called "Defining Victory Downward: No, the surge is not a success," columnist Michael Kinsley exposed the fatuous standards of comparison used by Bush and took his readers to standards back in 2003. Kinsley observed how Bush spouts success against conflicts and conditions that never existed before March 2003. There were no Al-Qaeda fighters in Iraq, no large scale sectarian carnage.

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