So what do we think of the Korb plan for Iraq Withdrawl?

[LittleClarkie]

Since Dean brought it up, I thought I'd ask how people would feel about this sort of disengagement.

Here's the link from madflo's thread
http://www.newsday.com/news/opinion/ny-toptruk4515718nov17,0,7373450.story?coll=ny-viewpoints-headlines

And a bit of the article.

The United States must begin redeployment in January, right after Iraq has its next election - whether to elect a permanent government or an assembly to draw up a new constitution. The Bush administration has left us with no better choice.

We believe the United States needs to pursue a plan of strategic redeployment - a threat-based strategy to target U.S. efforts against global terrorist networks and bring greater stability to Iraq and its neighborhood.

Strategic redeployment is a phased plan for drawing down U.S. troops starting in January. U.S. troops would completely withdraw from Iraq's urban areas, finishing the handover of responsibility already begun in Najaf, Karbala, parts of Baghdad and other major cities.

By the end of next year, 80,000 of the 150,000 U.S. troops currently deployed in Iraq would be redeployed from the country. All National Guard and Reserve units would be demobilized and returned to the United States next year. The other active duty troops scheduled to be deployed to Iraq in 2006 would be sent to other hot spots around the globe in the fight against terrorists, with nearly two divisions going to Afghanistan to fight a resurgent Taliban insurgency and other troops going to the Horn of Africa and Southeast Asia to meet emerging threats there.

More at link.

[tx_dem41]

1. Its a plan I could back. n/t

[madfloridian]

2. Involving a Democratic hawk, Murtha, and a plan by a Republican...

might get attention by shutting the other side up about all us bad liberals.

I have not read all the plans, not even all of Korb's. I think we have so little power in congress, that if it works it works.

Dean said many Republicans in congress were already signing on to the plan....can't be a bad thing if that is happening.

[madfloridian]

3. In fact here is Dean's statement on it from Morning Sedition.

Dean: He's a very bright guy, and he's written a very interesting piece which I think is the key to how you get out of Iraq without endangering our troops or maximizing the terrorists' ability to cause mayhem over there. And I know Jack talked to him before he came out with his redeployment strategy.

We need to redeploy our troops, the Guardsmen need to come home, there need to be a group sent to Kuwait to be on hand for the terrorist attacks, and there needs to be a group sent to Afghanistan so we can do the job there which the government wants us to do, and then we'll leave a few troops in Iraq over 2006 in order to stabilize the situation there which the President's made a huge mess of.

So, I think that's a reasonable plan--I think Democrats ought to coalesce around. I think we can do that.

It's gradual.

The Republicans have practically signed onto it in the Senate. They know their Commander in Chief has got us into a big problem here. And you start to see them peeling away. You saw the Senate pass a resolution that 2006 should be the year of transition . Well, that was a step in the right direction for the Republicans to take, and I ..."