Chris Dodd for President

The Anon Guy of Dullard Mush has posted Part II of his interview with Senator Dodd. Part I can be read here. Here's a clip from Part II:

TAG: What would be the one message you would hope Americans learn from your campaign? CJD: At a time when the stakes could not be greater, I offer proven leadership that all Americans can trust. From my service in the Peace Corps to my service in leadership on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and as Chair of the Senate Banking Committee, I am a proven leader in strengthening our families and our country. My proven leadership gives me the ability to bring people together to get things done, which I did when I authored and helped pass the Family and Medical Leave Act, and the FIRE and SAFER Acts, which have provided more than $3 billion in essential training, equipment and staffing resources to our nation’s fire departments. After six years of on-the-job training that has weakened the middle class at home and diminished our standing in the world, we need proven leadership that we can trust to do the right thing and get things done.

Blogger The Anon Guy of Dullard Mush has posted the first segment of an email interview with Senator Dodd. You can read the whole thing here, but I wanted to give you a preview of what you'll get:

TAG: Everybody in Washington is looking for an "exit strategy" in Iraq, but the debate has mainly been framed in slogans such as "stay the course," "cut and run" and vague "time lines." Is there a good strategy out there and, if so, what do you think it is? CJD: I do not think our American servicemen and women in Iraq should be policing someone else’s civil war while we lack the needed resources to complete missions in our own country and elsewhere abroad. The American people have long stopped understanding what exactly our mission in Iraq is, if they ever knew what it was to begin with. Both the Feingold-Reid-Dodd Amendment and the aforementioned Dodd Amendment, which I will introduce, would responsibly and safely redeploy our troops out of harm’s way. The civil war in Iraq cannot be resolved through military force, and if the president will not change course, then it is Congress’ obligation to do so. I will continue to vote to reduce funding to pressure the president to change the underlying policy of reliance on a military solution to someone else’s civil war. This will be done with adequate time for the president to redeploy our troops safely within and outside of Iraq, but the bottom line is: it must be done. Our troops should be redeployed out of the urban centers where a civil war is raging, and toward the border areas where they can continue to train Iraqi forces, conduct ongoing intelligence operations and secure American civilian and diplomatic efforts. We must redirect funding to augment our forces in Afghanistan, restore our military readiness, support our wounded veterans and their families and begin restoring America’s leadership in the world.

Read the rest of Part I here; another segment of the interview will be posted there tomorrow.