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Dems Have Few Options on Iraq

Political hands are more or less tied to the situation on the ground
By Nick McMaster,  Newser Staff
Posted Sep 30, 2007 9:08 AM CDT
Dems Have Few Options on Iraq
(AP Photo/Hadi Mizban, File)   (Associated Press)

No matter who wins the White House in '08, he or she will preside over a significant US troop presence in Iraq through the majority of their first term, say Democratic presidential candidates and their short-list picks for defense secretary. And at last week's Democratic debate, the Washington Post reports, none of the candidates would promise a full withdrawal by 2013.

Of course, it isn't really up to them. Future US troops levels will be determined by the success of 2008's post-surge drawdown and the transfer of power to Iraqi forces, assuming that regional powers don't get seriously involved. One potential defense secretary predicted that a Democratic administration might not oversee the war very differently than Bush, saying: "There's a fairly narrow band of choice here." (Read more Iraq stories.)

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