Hillary to Introduce ‘Surge Compromise’ Proposal

 WASHINGTON (Disassociated Press) March 1, 2007 – Amidst the myriad of Congressional responses to the surge strategy that President Bush began implementing at the beginning of the year and which is scheduled to increase the number of U.S. troops in Iraq by approximately 20,000, United States Senator from New York and Democratic Presidential Candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton has announced that she will introduce her own surge counter proposal into the United States Senate.   The proposal would be a compromise between the President’s surge strategy, and the various other counter surge proposals and suggestions which are being bandied about on Capitol Hill. 

         “In my proposal, I support the President’s surge strategy,” stated New York’s Junior Senator.  “However, I would, at the same time, call for the simultaneous withdrawal from Iraq of an equal number of troops as the surge puts in.”

         Democratic strategic analyst Seth Gumbridge offered this opinion of Senator Clinton’s impending proposal.  “Hillary continues to walk an ever narrowing tight rope, attempting to justify her initial support for the Iraqi invasion, while at the same time trying to appease the increasingly virulent anti-war plank of her party.  This compromise proposal is designed to strike a balance between the two positions.”

         Former Democratic Presidential Nominee John Kerry (D-MA), who recently announced that he himself would not be seeking his party‘s nomination for the 2008 Presidential Election, had muted criticism for Senator Clinton’s proposal.

         “If I were to employ such an action, I wouldn’t do the surge and the withdrawal simultaneously,” stated Kerry.  “I would either put them in before I took them out, or I would take them out before I put them in."

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