WASHINGTON - Today, Presidential candidate Chris Dodd released the following statement on the Feingold-Reid amendment which would set a firm deadline for the redeployment of US troops from Iraq and cut off funding for combat operations after that deadline:
"We cannot wait until 2013 to end this war, or even 2009. We need to act to end our involvement in this civil war now and the only way to do that is for Congress to be clear with the President and the Iraqis that we will not support an open-ended deployment. Unfortunately, we are sending the exact opposite message when we indicate that we would allow combat operations to go for at least another six years or offer measures without an enforceable date for redeployment.
"The clarity we need will only come by setting a firm deadline for redeployment tied to funding as proposed by the Feingold-Reid amendment. Given that the Senate has had the opportunity to vote on amendments about newspaper ads and possibly one about a radio talk show host, I hope the leadership will allow us to vote on a substantive and meaningful amendment that would actually end the war."
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