House And Senate Dems To Bush: Time For Iraq Troop Withdrawal Schedule...

Associated Press June 12, 2006 at 05:12 PM
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Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid said in a speech in Washington that Americans "deserve a plan from the president, one that provides our troops with an exit strategy from this seemingly intractable conflict." He said, "It is no longer sufficient to say 'we will stand down as the Iraqis stand up.'"

The Camp David meeting came as the Bush administration was trying to capitalize on momentum from last week's swearing-in of key Iraqi national security officials and from the U.S. airstrike that killed Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, al-Qaida's leader in Iraq.

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