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Senator John Kerry's representatives avoided a Democratic Party platform fight over Iraq on Saturday by persuading platform committee delegates supporting Representative Dennis J. Kucinich to withdraw their proposals for a quick withdrawal of United States combat troops from Iraq.
Obama called for a quick withdrawal of U.S. troops, while McCain had long pushed for an escalation in hopes of a decisive military victory.
Mr. Bush also held out little hope for a quick withdrawal of American soldiers, and said he would maintain troop levels of 138,000 "as long as necessary".
Administration officials said Monday that their commitments to Afghanistan and Pakistan would not waver after Bin Laden's death, even though they said privately that pressure for a quick withdrawal of American troops would grow.
Kudos to Representative John P. Murtha for calling for a quick withdrawal of American troops from Iraq, and especially for his blunt response to Vice President Dick Cheney's attacks on senators who question the administration's rationale for the war.
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The move to an "Afghan good enough" strategy followed, with minimal goals and a quicker withdrawal of troops.
In an interview, Mr. Biden said such an approach would be a striking shift from the Bush administration's insistence on a strong and unified Iraqi federal government and would permit a quicker withdrawal of American troops.
has long been a solid supporter of keeping U.S. troops in Afghanistan, having visited the war zone seven times and believing that a quicker withdrawal of troops would be detrimental.
The defence secretary said last night that the UK could face civil or military commitments "for generations" in Iraq and Afghanistan but today raised hopes of a quick withdrawal from Basra.
But the difference in the cost is breathtaking: the office estimates that Congress would have to appropriate $388 billion for the case of a quick withdrawal and more than double, $867 billion, for the slower one.
But by the time Trump became a presidential candidate, he had abandoned talk of a quick withdrawal.
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