Murtha Renews Call for U.S. Troop Withdrawal from Iraq

By Associated Press

05/17/06 "AP" -- -- - Congressman John Murtha says President Bush has no plan for victory in Iraq, and U.S. troops should leave.

Renewing his call for withdrawal, the Democrat from Pennsylvania says one of his military friends told him "when you open up the strategy for victory there's nothing inside."

At a news conference on Capitol Hill, Murtha said 80 percent of Iraqis want the U-S out of their country and 47 percent say it's O-K to kill Americans.

He says it's time to redeploy and "let the Iraqis settle this themselves." Murtha contends it won't be any better six months from now.

The decorated Vietnam veteran and ranking Democrat on the House Appropriations defense subcommittee says people everywhere he goes tell him they agree with him, and that includes military personnel and mothers with sons in Iraq.

(Copyright 2006 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

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