FOR THE TROOPS: Talk Redeployment

General Wesley Clark is talking about a transition in Iraq and not for
the first time. It's way past the moment to listen. But talking about having no permanent bases, well,
now that's news, especially since we've got football fields of them already
constructed. How Clark talks the neocons out of this one will be worth watching. It will take leadership, which the man has in excess.

Retired Army Gen. Wesley Clark called Thursday for transition of authority in Iraq during the course of this year and said that the United States should soon begin the process of withdrawing the U.S. soldiers. Clark, a four-star general who served as the supreme commander of NATO in 1997-2000 and unsuccessfully sought the Democratic presidential nomination in 2004, said the fledging Iraqi government must take charge and be given the means to address the security in the country. “It’s necessary … to make this year a year of transition in Iraq,” Clark told The Associated Press in an interview during his visit to Kosovo. “The Iraqi government must take charge.” He said that ministers of interior, defense and national security should be appointed, but also said that a lot of help is needed from the international community to strengthen the Iraqi government in meeting the needs of the people. “And then we should begin the process of withdrawing the U.S. soldiers and other coalition soldiers from Iraq,” said Clark. “I do think that there should be no permanent bases there. I think that the United States should soon begin its process of redeployment,” he said, adding that he believed there will be “some withdrawals very soon given where we are.” … Clark: Begin troop withdrawals (h/t Huffington Post)

Democrats have talked Strategice
Redeployment not once, but
twice.

Memorial Day seems a good time to rediscover it. Just maybe third time's a charm.