Thursday, August 30, 2007  It's Time For Some Answers  In an
e-mail to supporters today, Governor Richardson called out his
fellow Democratic candidates on how many troops they'd leave
behind in Iraq and for how long.  All the major Democratic
candidates say they are eager to end this war, and they all say
they don’t believe there is a military solution in Iraq. Why,
then, do they maintain that we must leave an indefinite number
of troops behind for an indeterminate amount of time to work
hopelessly towards a military solution everyone says doesn’t
exist?  It is time to get a straight answer from all the other
candidates: how many troops would you leave behind? For how
long?  Bill Richardson's position has been clear and strong: No
troops left behind. None, zero, zip, zilch, nada. Not one
residual troop left in Iraq.  Markos just wants the other
Democrats to answer the damn question already.  "How many troops
will you leave behind in Iraq."  Anything above the security
detail for the US embassy in Baghdad (al