US Activists, Iraqi Lawmakers Demand US Troop Withdrawal

[sabra]

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US Activists, Iraqi Lawmakers Demand US Troop Withdrawal
Saturday August 5th, 2006 / 19h00


AMMAN (AP)--"Peace mom" Cindy Sheehan, Tom Hayden and 13 other U.S. activists on Saturday joined Iraqi lawmakers in demanding a timetable be fixed for withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq.
"I'm optimistic that the majority of the American people want a withdrawal sooner, rather than later," Hayden, a former California state senator told reporters in the Jordanian capital after talks with seven Iraqi Shiite and Sunni lawmakers.

"It's going to be an important issue in the Congressional elections and the (2008) presidential campaign has already begun," he said.

About half of the activists will head to Syria on Sunday and Lebanon on Monday to "assess the humanitarian crisis" caused by the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah over the past 25 days, killing hundreds and displacing hundreds of thousands. Neither Sheehan, who returned earlier Saturday to the U.S., nor Hayden would be part of the team.

Hayden wondered whether the Lebanon conflict was "a desperate effort by the Israeli and U.S. neoconservatives to escalate their way out of defeat in Iraq before the November elections."
"Are they trying to scramble and subdivide the whole Middle East? Do they hope this escalates into a conflict with Syria and Iran which some of them want," he said.

[leftchick]

1. I think Tom Hit the nail on the head with that question!

Yes indeed, it is what the neo freaks want.

[rodeodance]

3. divide and conqure is the plan

[Vidar]

2. Hayden has a point.