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Newt agrees with Murtha??!!
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Gingrich at USD: Scale back to small force in Iraq (video)
Ex-House speaker says U.S. made "enormous mistake" in occupation

VERMILLION - Newt Gingrich, the former Republican Speaker of the House, told students and faculty at the University of South Dakota Monday that the United States should pull out of Iraq and leave a small force there, just as it did post-war in Korea and Germany.

"It was an enormous mistake for us to try to occupy that country after June of 2003," Gingrich said during a question-and-answer session at the school. "We have to pull back, and we have to recognize it."
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http://www.argusleader.com/apps/pbcs.dl ... 10311/1001

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I wouldn't have rated Newt as high as a 6 (of hearts). The only STD a woman can get that a man can't is pregnant (if you want to call pregnancy a sexually transmitted disease - problem or condition would, of course, be more accurate, but fundies tend to lump pregnancy in with all other "punishments" for indulging in sexual activity).

Funny how everyone who isn't a part of the current administration is finally admitting we shouldn't be in Iraq. However, Newt is "dream on" as much as the rest of the Rs with that bit about leaving a small force there just as we did in post-war Korea and Germany. Those situations are very different from each other as well as from the situation in Iraq. Only if that "small force" is a group of commando-style "strike and run" units specifically targeting terrorist cells is that going to work - and as bad as the situation is right now, they may have to be based outside Iraq - which raises more than a few points of international law (but then, we don't have to obey international law, do we).

Actually, the best idea I've heard came from a Palestinian grad student - she said have Egypt and Saudi train the Iraqi "peacekeepers" and get our troops out - US troops are the rallying cry and recruiting tool for terrorists and are bleeding out for nothing achievable.