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Warner calls for Iraq withdrawal |  Printable version | 
Republican Sen. John Warner has called on President George W. Bush to initiate plans for withdrawing troops from Iraq by the end of 2007.
Warner recommended Thursday at a press conference that Bush announce the beginning of a US withdrawal in mid-September, after a report is released from the top US officials in Iraq, and that those troops should be back in the US by the end of the year.
Warner opposed Bush's January decision to send nearly 30,000 additional US troops to Iraq. But he has so far also opposed Democratic efforts to force Bush to start bringing US troops home.
"We must start an orderly, carefully-planned, thought-out redeployment," said Warner, "in my humble judgment, that will get everybody's attention," he added.
The senator said that it was the president, not the Congress that should set up the timetable of withdrawal, as he is opposed to a rapid withdrawal and we should "take each step at a time," he said.
Even before the senator's press conference was over, the White House called it inappropriate to discuss whether or not Bush would consider such an option.
National Security Council spokesman Gordon Johndroe said Bush would make decisions about American troops in Iraq after he was briefed by General David Petraeus, the top US commander in Iraq, US Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker and others on the situation in Iraq.
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