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draft_mario_cuomo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-27-07 08:51 AM
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Edwards: Congress should use all tools to demand troop withdrawal
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Edited on Mon Aug-27-07 08:52 AM by draft_mario_cuomo
==By Holly Ramer, Associated Press Writer | August 26, 2007

==The former North Carolina senator started the last day of his four-day bus tour of New Hampshire outside Manchester's City Hall, where he told several hundred people that they should ask themselves two key questions when the report is released. First, has Iraq made progress toward a political solution? And second, how long will troops be deployed if there is no progress?

==He repeated his stance that Congress should not submit any Iraq funding bill to President Bush unless it includes a timetable for withdrawing troops.

"All the Democrats have to do is what America wants them to do," he said later in Hampton. "It's not like they're taking some unpopular decision. I think we ought to be willing to take an unpopular position if it's the right thing to do, but this is not an unpopular position, this is what America actually wants to have done."

At all his stops, Edwards emphasized that Democrats should use every tool available, including filibusters, to push for a timetable for withdrawal.==

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