Reply #12: John Kerry [View All]

[beachmom]

1. Timetable for withdrawal of American troops -- IMPERATIVE to get Iraq government to take over. Kerry/Feingold set the date of 7/1/07. ISG set the date of first quarter of '08. The point is a date -- an exit strategy.

2. A regional conference of the Arab league, Iran, Syria, the EU, NATO, the U.N., the U.S., and all Iraqi factions to come to a diplomatic solution to the problems of the civil war in Iraq. We are talking MASSIVE diplomacy. There is no military solution in Iraq, only a political one.

3. The only troops that should remain in Iraq after the deadline will be those protecting American assets and training Iraqis, but they will NOT be embedded with the Iraqis. The military shall also remain in the region (perhaps in Kuwait) to fight al Qaeda and any potential training camps that they create.