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Duckworth makes it official [Il-06]
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| Last Edited | COSDem Dec 19, 2005 01:30pm |
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| Media | Newspaper - Honolulu Advertiser |
| News Date | Monday, December 19, 2005 07:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Iraq war veteran L. Tammy Duckworth, a helicopter pilot who lost her legs in a rocket-propelled grenade attack, formally announced her candidacy yesterday for the congressional seat of retiring Republican Rep. Henry Hyde.
The Hawai'i-born former Army major is one of about a half-dozen Iraq war veterans running for office as Democrats, lending their military backgrounds to the party's argument that it can be strong on defense and national security, even as its leaders criticize President Bush's handling of the war.
"I looked around and I became very dissatisfied in the mistakes and bad decisions that were being made," Duckworth, 37, told The Advertiser yesterday.
During the two months she spent in the hospital, she began thinking about ways she could make a difference, she said.
She said Bush "hasn't come up with a new plan to leave Iraq." She said she does not favor an immediate pullout, but instead endorses a plan for setting "benchmarks" that would guide a U.S. withdrawal from Iraq.
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