Dems Will Push For Iraq Withdrawal

The “Cut and Run” Party is already chompimg at the bit as evidenced below:

Democrats said on Sunday they will push for a phased withdrawal of American troops from Iraq to begin in four to six months.

“First order of business is to change the direction of Iraq policy,” said Sen. Carl Levin, a Michigan Democrat who is expected to be chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee in the new Congress.

Democrats will press President George W. Bush’s administration to tell the Iraqi government that U.S. presence was “not open-ended, and that, as a matter of fact, we need to begin a phased redeployment of forces from Iraq in four to six months,” Levin said on ABC’s “This Week” program.

Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid of Nevada said “we need to redeploy,” but that the decision should be made by military officers in Iraq.

He said on “Face The Nation” program on CBS that he would not insist on a specific date for drawing down troops, but that a withdrawal should start within the next few months.