Mike Pence: “after waiting for months, the new Democrat majority has introduced their plan for Iraq today, and it can be summed up…”

“after waiting for months, the new Democrat majority has introduced their plan for Iraq today, and it can be summed up with one phrase, fully funded withdrawal. Seeking to micromanage the war, the Democrats have come up with a plan that attaches strings to troop funding in order to seek American withdrawal from Iraq by 2008. This Democrat plan for a fully funded withdrawal could also be described as a well-equipped retreat. A fully funded withdrawal might well be added to that classic list of American oxymorons that includes plastic glass and jumbo shrimp. Since their election pledge to ``fix the war,'' it has taken our friends on the other side of the aisle 4 months to come up with a strategy in Iraq. But even though their proposal does include funding for our soldiers in the field and our veterans here at home, their latest poll-tested approach for fighting the war in Iraq can best be described as cut and run. For all the Democrats' furtive back-room efforts and tortured explanations, it is not nearly as complex as they describe. In fact, their strategy could be described by George Orwell: ``The quickest way to end the war is to lose it.'' We don't need a fully funded withdrawal. We need to fully fund victory for freedom in Iraq.”