Withdrawal from Iraq Representative John M

Representative John Murtha, a Democrat from Pennsylvania and a leading expert on defense issues, has called for a withdrawal of all American and Coalition forces from Iraq over the course of the next six months. Murtha, arguing that the Coalition has done all that can realistically be done in Iraq and that the Iraqi theater of orations is more "intense" than that in Vietnam where he served as a Marine Corps colonel, takes the position that there is little to be gained by remaining in Iraq for the foreseeable future. While there is no doubt that Murtha has made an important point about the difficulty of the American and Coalition goals in Iraq, it seems somewhat premature to assume that an early withdrawal would not have serious and potentially destabilizing consequences.

On the one hand, no casual observer of the nightly news can fail to recognize that the escalation of violence in Iraq that has occurred since the recent elections is damaging the Bush Administration's policy and continued insistence on remaining on the ground. Television news v

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