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Withdraw "now"?
What a joke. There is no "now". The Democrats could cut funding tomorrow and the resulting withdrawal would still take months if not more than a year.
There are hundreds of thousands of troops and contractors there plus billions of tons of equipment and supplies; it's not like they can all hop on United and check their M1 Abrams tanks and come home.
Cutting funds to force this would leave a lot of OUR OWN people in danger and a lot of military equipment in the hands of unknowns.
Face it: The withdrawal of troops has nothing to do with the 50 Democrats in the Senate "growing a spine". We could have 50 Jim Webbs and it wouldn't make a single damn difference. This disaster will be handed over to the next president to do as he or she sees fit.