With these remarks, Senator Kennedy should consider immediately withdrawing from the Senate. To suggest that the U.S. should set a fixed timetable to withdraw troops in the face of terrorists who are determined to succeed or die is unconscionable. If the elections and the process of establishing an Iraqi constitutional government a year from now are worthy of success, then for a leading U.S. politician to set a withdrawal timetable is plain stupid.
"Mr. Kennedy said the United Nations, not the United States, should take the lead in helping the new Iraqi government get on its feet, and that the United States should disengage militarily by withdrawing at least 12,000 troops after the elections, completing the pull-out by early 2006. (There are now about 150,000 Americans in uniform in Iraq.)
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