Feingold and Kerry (and Boxer) call for Troop Redeployment

I got an email from Feingold's Progressive Patriots Fund saying that Feingold, Kerry, and Boxer will be introducing an ammendment in the Senate about redeploying our troops from Iraq. Here is the blurb from the Progressive Patriot Fund site...

Senators Feingold, Kerry, and Boxer will offer an Amendment to the Defense Authorization bill that calls for a redeployment of American troops out of Iraq. Please sign our petition to support this amendment.

I also heard that Kerry was on Imus this morning (Crooks and Liars has the video of the interview) responding to Republicans that say Democrats want to "cut and run."

"My plan is not 'cut and run,'" he said. "Their plan is 'lie and die.' And that's what they are doing. They lie to America, what's happening on the ground. They lie about why we're there. They lie about what's happening. And our plan is very simple. It's redeploy to win the war on terror. Change to succeed."

It is good to see Kerry start to fight back.

Feingold discusses this topic in a piece on the Huffington Post a couple weeks ago.

The first step in creating a strong national security policy is recognizing that our massive presence in Iraq weakens our national security. Our Iraq-centric policies are diverting resources and attention from other places around the world where terrorist networks that threaten the U.S. are operating. We need to redeploy troops from Iraq so that we can focus resources on global terrorist networks and the conditions throughout the world that allow them to take root and thrive.

If you wonder why Harkin is not a co-sponsor of this bill, maybe Nicolai's post today is on to something.

**Update**
Salon has an article discussing the Feingold/Kerry ammendment about troop redeployment. Here is a quote that about how troop redeployment isn't exactly an oppinion of the fringe, but within the mainstream.

Back home, a new CNN poll shows that a majority of Americans also want a timetable for withdrawal from Iraq, and 47 percent of the public wants to see a deadline of a year or less -- suddenly making that "extreme" Kerry-Feingold-Boxer measure, which calls for the withdrawal by July 1, 2007, of all troops not involved in training, seem pretty darned mainstream.