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Webb: GOP has lost 'moral high ground'
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| Last Edited | The Sunset Provision Jan 31, 2007 08:12pm |
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| Media | TV News - CNN |
| News Date | Thursday, February 1, 2007 02:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Sen. Jim Webb, the newly arrived Democrat from Virginia, has quickly become one of President Bush's most outspoken critics on the Iraq war, blasting the administration for its handling of the conflict and charging that the new troop-level plan is ill-conceived.
"My view on Iraq is that there is nothing that has happened that was not both predictable and predicted by people with a lot of national security experience," he recently told CNN. "The situation that we're in right now with respect to the president's plan is not really a strategic change. This isn't a new strategy."
He said the United States needs to get to a point where American troops are no longer needed on the streets of Iraq, while also being in a position to bring stability to the Mideast. (Watch Webb's rise in Washington )
"I don't see that this plan is going to increase our ability to do that," he said.
Bush has ordered an additional 21,500 troops to be sent to Iraq to provide security for rebuilding efforts. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee last week voted 12-9 in favor of a resolution condemning Bush's decision. A full Senate vote is expected the week of February 5.
Webb, a decorated Vietnam War veteran and former secretary of the Navy in the Reagan administration, has made the Iraq issue front and center since arriving in Washington this month.
He was tapped to respond to Bush's State of the Union -- a logical choice, not only for his tough stance on Iraq, but because his come-from-behind victory in November gave Senate Democrats their one seat majority.
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