Sen. Jack Reed back from Iraq

A.S.A.P
Thu, 12 Jul 2007 01:33:18 +0000

It’s refreshing to hear someone talk realistically, and not turn the discussion about drawing down the troops into an all or nothing proposition. I hope that the senator’s views represent the generals views to some degree. It gives me hope that we may be able to bring many of our people home soon without abandoning the country completely and leaving the Iraqis without any help from us. He emphasized that we need a political, not military, solution at this point, and we need to help the Iraqis find that political solution. Troops for training their army and special ops for fighting terrorists would still be necessary, but the numbers needed for that would be reduced considerably.