Pelosi: 50,000 Residual Troops Left in Iraq is Too Many

(10 am. – promoted by ek hornbeck)

Thank you, Madam Speaker.  People have been critical of Speaker Pelosi, and sometimes rightfully so for putting impeachment off the table, but on issue after issue, e.g., Iraq, raising taxes on the wealthy, ending Bush’s tax cuts now, she is to the Left of President Obama.

I agree with her here.  50,000 troops, including combat troops that are being reclassified as “advisory personell or some such bs, is too much.  It’s time to end the American Empire.  We simply cannot afford it as people lose homes and jobs.  It ain’t right.  No more blood for empire.    

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/…

MADDOW: Fifty thousand seem like an awful large residual force?

PELOSI: It does. It does. I completely agree with that. And I don’t – the president hasn’t made the statement. … And I don’t know the justification is for a presence of 50,000 troops in Iraq. I do think that there is a need for some, and I don’t know that all of them have to be in the country. They can be platformed outside. … I would think one-third of that, maybe 20,000, maybe more than one-third, 15,000 or 20,000.

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    • TomP on February 26, 2009 at 18:20
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    bringing them all back home.

    I don’t even like 20,000, but it’s better than 50,000.

    • Edger on February 26, 2009 at 18:28

    in early 2007 when she did her goddamndest to ram through the first supplemental funding to hand Bush all the money he wanted to continue the occupation and pretty much flipped of everybody who was demanding withdrawal.

    She is a two faced manipulative liar and selfserving golddigger looking to rewrite history and save her own worthless ass from political oblivion.

    She needs to be charged with war crimes along with Bush and Cheney and sent to prison for the rest of her life.

    • TomP on February 27, 2009 at 16:44
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    It amazes me that Pelosi and Reid now are more antiwar than most of the netroots.

    It ssays a lot.

    This place is an oasis.  You remained antiwar even when Obama was elected.  You remained anti-torture, even when Obaam was elected.  ….

  1. …of this issue.

    Only thing I know for sure:  Bring Them All Home Now!!!

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