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Discuss “Brazen kidnapping indicates civil war, high stakes for victory”

As the Democrats move into the halls of Congress, they are urging American soldiers to move out of Iraq.

Senator Carl Levin from Michigan is the Democrats’ pick to be the new Armed Services Committee chairman. He has created a timetable that will begin removing American troops from Iraq within the next six months. Last week, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette printed this quotation from the Senator: “The point of this [plan to withdraw] is to signal to the Iraqis that the open-ended commitment is over and that they are going to have to deal with their own problems.”

Since the article was printed last Monday, some new events have unfurled which show that the Iraqis’ “own problems” may soon be a full-blown civil war in the country.

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