Snowe’s positions on the war in Iraq

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Here is what Sen. Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, has said about the Iraq war: June 28, 2007: “In the aftermath of the election, there was a clear message conveyed by the American people. They simply oppose the direction we’ve taken in Iraq.” However,…
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Here is what Sen. Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, has said about the Iraq war:

June 28, 2007: “In the aftermath of the election, there was a clear message conveyed by the American people. They simply oppose the direction we’ve taken in Iraq.”

However, regarding Democratic timelines for withdrawal: “I don’t want to specify a date certain. That has to be obscured, so we don’t send the wrong message to the enemy.”

July 12, 2007: Snowe reversed course and announces her support for Democratic legislation with timelines for the withdrawal of U.S. combat forces.

“What better way to send a very strong message and a signal about our true intentions for the future, to let them know that we mean it?”

Sept. 6, 2007: After studying the conclusions of a Government Accountability Office progress report that she helped commission, Snowe declared of the Iraqi government: “They have failed to come to grips with what kind of a country they want to become in the future. … If the whole purpose of the surge was to create that window of opportunity for political reconciliation, the Iraqi government has failed.”

Awaiting the general’s report this week: “Everybody’s in a holding pattern. Nobody wants to be pre-emptive or premature in judging the outcome of that testimony. … But change is in the offing, without question. What form and shape that takes remains to be seen, but you’re going to see a reduction in forces, and you will see a change in mission.”


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