Time for Plan B in Iraq.Byline: The Register-Guard It won't be long before Plan B once again is the talk of the town in Washington, D.C., but this time the subject won't be emergency contraception Emergency Contraception Definition Emergency contraception or emergency birth control uses either emergency contraceptive pills (ECPs) or a Copper-T intrauterine device (IUD) to help prevent pregnancy following unprotected vaginal intercourse. . This Plan B will refer to the post-"surge" U.S. strategy in Iraq, and it appears increasingly likely that the new strategy will be a bipartisan congressional endorsement of the Iraq Study Group's key recommendations. Support for President Bush's deluded commitment to an unwinnable Unwinnable is a state in many text adventures, graphical adventure games and computer role-playing games where it is impossible for the player to win the game (not due to a bug but by design), and where the only other options are restarting the game, loading a previously saved war is crumbling among key Republicans. Last Thursday, Sen. Pete Domenici Persondata NAME Domenici, Pietro Vichi ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pete Domenici SHORT DESCRIPTION United States Senator from New Mexico DATE OF BIRTH May 7, 1932 PLACE OF BIRTH Albuquerque, New Mexico DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH Pietro Vichi "Pete" Domenici of New Mexico New Mexico, state in the SW United States. At its northwestern corner are the so-called Four Corners, where Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah meet at right angles; New Mexico is also bordered by Oklahoma (NE), Texas (E, S), and Mexico (S). became the fourth senior Republican senator in 10 days to publicly repudiate TO REPUDIATE. To repudiate a right is to express in a sufficient manner, a determination not to accept it, when it is offered. 2. He who repudiates a right cannot by that act transfer it to another. the president's failed strategy, joining Richard Lugar of Indiana, Ohio's George Voinovich and John Warner of Virginia. Declaring that he was "unwilling to continue our current strategy," Domenici threw his support to a bipartisan bill implementing the Iraq Study Group's 79 recommendations, including the redeployment re·de·ploy tr.v. re·de·ployed, re·de·ploy·ing, re·de·ploys 1. To move (military forces) from one combat zone to another. 2. of U.S. combat troops by March 2008. The bill, sponsored by Sens. Ken Salazar, D-Colo., and Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., already is supported by other influential Republican senators, including Susan Collins of Maine; both New Hampshire New Hampshire, one of the New England states of the NE United States. It is bordered by Massachusetts (S), Vermont, with the Connecticut R. forming the boundary (W), the Canadian province of Quebec (NW), and Maine and a short strip of the Atlantic Ocean (E). senators, freshman John Sununu and Bush family friend Judd Gregg; and Robert Bennett of Utah. On the same day Domenici dropped his bombshell, another staunch Republican supporter of the war, conservative Rep. John Doolittle of California, called the situation in Iraq a "quagmire" and said the United States needed to get its troops "off the front lines" by the end of the year. No GOP defection, however, was more damaging to the White House than Lugar's. The senior Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee flatly rejected the administration's insistence that the troop surge was showing progress. Lugar had the courage to tell the president that he was unwilling to wait until September to evaluate the success of the surge - because it can't succeed. The United States must change course now, Lugar said. "We are running out of time to implement a thoughtful Plan B that attempts to protect our substantial interests in the region, while downsizing (1) Converting mainframe and mini-based systems to client/server LANs. (2) To reduce equipment and associated costs by switching to a less-expensive system. (jargon) downsizing our military presence in Iraq." Consideration of a Plan B for Iraq is right around the corner. A defense appropriations bill comes up for debate this week, and, as Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said, "Republicans will have the opportunity to not just say the right things on Iraq, but vote the right way, too." |
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