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Kansas Senator says Iraq should be split
into three states
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Kansas
lawmaker says to stabilize it, country should be
split into three states
March 18, 2007
PEORIA - Republican Kansas Sen. Sam Brownback
defended his vote against a House resolution calling
to pull troops out of Iraq by 2008, saying a
long-term political solution will require a military
presence for "some length of time."
In Peoria on Friday as the keynote speaker for the
Republican Lincoln Day Dinner at the Hotel Pere
Marquette, Brownback said he believes the way to
stabilize Iraq is by creating three states,
splitting Sunnis, Shiites and Kurds.
Brownback voted Thursday, along with 49 of his
colleagues, to successfully defeat the resolution
suggestion that U.S. troops come home by March 2008. |
Sam Brownback, Republican Kansas Senator |
"I believe this is ultimately the shape the place
will take," Brownback said. And that will require a
stable U.S. military presence, he said, so that the
political discussion can take place.
"Iraq is as much as anything three groups held
together by exterior borders. We need to push this
and a timetable does not make that situation work."
Brownback is one of a dozen or so Republicans
seeking the 2008 presidential nomination in a
crowded field that includes more well-known
contenders, from Arizona Sen. John McCain to former
New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani. "I'm the tortoise in
this race," he said, likening himself to the
unlikely winner in the popular fable "The Tortoise
and the Hare." "I don't like how that race starts,
but I like how it finished."
Brownback stands socially to the right of leading
contenders and describes himself as a "full-scale
Reagan conservative." Noting that Abraham Lincoln
was once considered a "dark horse" candidate,
Brownback said he should not be written off in this
race.
"This is a long ways out. We're in March of the year
before," he said. "Let's not count anybody out at
this point and time and let's have a good robust
debate of the ideas.
They already did a poll and people are already tired
of the 2008 race, but I don't think they're tired of
talking about ideas."
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