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From NBC’s Domenico Montanaro and Lauren AppelbaumAs we reported earlier in First Read, Richardson called out Democratic rivals Clinton, Obama, Dodd, Biden, and Edwards for what he called their support of "loopholes" to keep troops in Iraq.&amp;nbsp;Talking</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2.0 (Build: 60608.1)</generator><item><title>Richardson wants 'zero troops' in Iraq</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/06/19/229879.aspx#229901</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 Jun 2007 18:22:04 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:229901</guid><dc:creator>H P Boston</dc:creator><description>ME TOO!</description></item><item><title>Richardson wants 'zero troops' in Iraq</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/06/19/229879.aspx#229910</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 Jun 2007 18:27:09 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:229910</guid><dc:creator>Dave, Tn</dc:creator><description>Why not a call to get out of Afghanistan too? These leftist, and the terrorist around the world always include both together in their list of grievances.</description></item><item><title>Richardson wants 'zero troops' in Iraq</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/06/19/229879.aspx#229919</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 Jun 2007 18:33:56 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:229919</guid><dc:creator>Michael Bever   Mesa Verde, CO</dc:creator><description>Nice move.</description></item><item><title>Richardson wants 'zero troops' in Iraq</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/06/19/229879.aspx#229929</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 Jun 2007 18:38:44 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:229929</guid><dc:creator>Try Craigs list Rants &amp;amp; Raves</dc:creator><description>Quit misreprenting everyone you can't understand, Davie. (Understood - that leave one person - President Moron.)</description></item><item><title>Richardson wants 'zero troops' in Iraq</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/06/19/229879.aspx#229935</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 Jun 2007 18:44:22 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:229935</guid><dc:creator>Terry, Disabled Vet, Des Moines, IA</dc:creator><description>Dave, Tn, the Military is looking for you.</description></item><item><title>Richardson wants 'zero troops' in Iraq</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/06/19/229879.aspx#229944</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 Jun 2007 18:48:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:229944</guid><dc:creator>Al, KS</dc:creator><description>So Richardson cannot walk and chew gum at the same time? One message a day please...that's all he can handle. As one who might have supported him early in the campaign...I've been a little dissapointed.</description></item><item><title>Richardson wants 'zero troops' in Iraq</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/06/19/229879.aspx#229952</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 Jun 2007 18:52:54 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:229952</guid><dc:creator>Scott in South Texas</dc:creator><description>What an amazing coincidence, that's exactly the same number I had in mind.</description></item><item><title>Richardson wants 'zero troops' in Iraq</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/06/19/229879.aspx#229963</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 Jun 2007 19:01:40 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:229963</guid><dc:creator>R&amp;amp;R</dc:creator><description>&amp;quot;misrepresenting,&amp;quot; of course.</description></item><item><title>Richardson wants 'zero troops' in Iraq</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/06/19/229879.aspx#229981</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 Jun 2007 19:09:26 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:229981</guid><dc:creator>jerry/corpus christi texas</dc:creator><description>LOL, so there are some women who need to know how to dress in the liberal party. &amp;nbsp;Fanny pack? &amp;nbsp;Well, it is nice to know somebody isn't up on all that is going on in Washington, it is pretty lames as it is. &amp;nbsp;I'm still trying to figure out the big deal about the white house e-mails myself. &amp;nbsp;remember, the liberal press announced yesterday that Al Quida graduated a bunch of suicide bombers and want to unleash them on the world. &amp;nbsp;To end all this liberal rubbish, it is going to have to take one more attack on america to finally wake people up in this country. &amp;nbsp;These must have been some pretty pissed liberals at this meeting today. &amp;nbsp;getting on Richardson and Chris matthews and a few others. &amp;nbsp;All they wanted to talk about was iraq, they can't talk about anything else. &amp;nbsp;With all the democratic candidates talking about surrender at all costs, kinda funny how they all want to get involved in a war in darfur.</description></item><item><title>Richardson wants 'zero troops' in Iraq</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/06/19/229879.aspx#229993</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 Jun 2007 19:20:07 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:229993</guid><dc:creator>Kato in Des Moines</dc:creator><description>Richardson sounds and acts more like Jimmy Carter everyday. &amp;nbsp;</description></item><item><title>Richardson wants 'zero troops' in Iraq</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/06/19/229879.aspx#229997</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 Jun 2007 19:24:07 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:229997</guid><dc:creator>Ken, MN</dc:creator><description>Dave, I have been on this blog for months and rarely does anyone say we should be out of Afghanistan. &amp;nbsp;That is where we should have been and should have stayed because that is where the bad guys were at the start. &amp;nbsp;However, Bush cut off the pursuit of OBL so he could start his personal war with Saddam. &amp;nbsp;Now both have literally blown up in the faces of our troops due to the ineptitude of Mr. Bush. &amp;nbsp;We have no right to be in Iraq, never have. &amp;nbsp;Afghanistan was where we should have been and should have pressed the fight but Mr. Bush had his own glorious agenda and took us all into his rabbit hole with him.</description></item><item><title>Richardson wants 'zero troops' in Iraq</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/06/19/229879.aspx#230002</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 Jun 2007 19:28:10 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:230002</guid><dc:creator>Dorothy</dc:creator><description>&amp;quot;Pretty in Pink&amp;quot;--A movie</description></item><item><title>Richardson wants 'zero troops' in Iraq</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/06/19/229879.aspx#230003</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 Jun 2007 19:29:13 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:230003</guid><dc:creator>Dorothy</dc:creator><description>&amp;quot;You wear it well...a little old-fashioned, but that's all right....&amp;quot;--Rod Stewart</description></item><item><title>Richardson wants 'zero troops' in Iraq</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/06/19/229879.aspx#230015</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 Jun 2007 19:40:51 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:230015</guid><dc:creator>MK,MO</dc:creator><description>if we pull out of iraq the chances of an attack on american soil will go down not up, we are trying to occupy a muslim state with no just cause which tends to piss off muslims everywhere, don't believe the great repub farce they call the war on terror</description></item><item><title>Richardson wants 'zero troops' in Iraq</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/06/19/229879.aspx#230026</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 Jun 2007 19:44:12 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:230026</guid><dc:creator>Gary Schear, Bozeman Montana</dc:creator><description>Richardson had me when I realized he could spontaneously string together a coherent sentence. My how our standards have fallen.</description></item><item><title>Richardson wants 'zero troops' in Iraq</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/06/19/229879.aspx#230063</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 Jun 2007 20:11:26 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:230063</guid><dc:creator>juan,ft lauderdale,fl</dc:creator><description>typical fear mongering from the right while our civil liberties go down the tiolet. if only we focused on afghanistan;none of the crap going on in the middle east may not have occurred. thanks alot neo-cons for opening pandora's box and the other ignorant apologists who ignored history/civics classes growing up. </description></item><item><title>Richardson wants 'zero troops' in Iraq</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/06/19/229879.aspx#230082</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 Jun 2007 20:23:13 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:230082</guid><dc:creator>R.Merrell</dc:creator><description>Jerry and Dave....still plenty of open spots down at your local Marine, Army, and National Guard recruiting offices. &amp;nbsp;Or, how about Blackwater USA as an alternative? &amp;nbsp;Surely there's a place for you on America's defense team. &amp;nbsp;And you'll be so busy keeping the terrorists at bay that you won't have to be bothered with any more &amp;quot;liberal rubbish&amp;quot;. &amp;nbsp;And if you're lucky, maybe that other pillar of patriotism, Dick (&amp;quot;Sorry, I was just tooooo busy to go to Vietnam&amp;quot;) Cheney will swoop in under the cover of darkness and tell his wonderful stories and laments about how much progress is being made, yada, yada,yada. &amp;nbsp;And you can feel all fuzzy and warm that you're finally getting the unvarnished truth from a real conservative instead of drival from the &amp;quot;liberal&amp;quot; press. &amp;nbsp;</description></item><item><title>Richardson wants 'zero troops' in Iraq</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/06/19/229879.aspx#230083</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 Jun 2007 20:23:28 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:230083</guid><dc:creator>Desmond</dc:creator><description>Zero troops in Iraq.I agree.</description></item><item><title>Richardson wants 'zero troops' in Iraq</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/06/19/229879.aspx#230105</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 Jun 2007 20:38:34 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:230105</guid><dc:creator>Dorothy</dc:creator><description>&amp;quot;Saved By Zero&amp;quot;--The Fixx</description></item><item><title>Richardson wants 'zero troops' in Iraq</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/06/19/229879.aspx#230134</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 Jun 2007 20:55:39 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:230134</guid><dc:creator>juan,ft lauderdale,fl</dc:creator><description>R.MERRELL-right on!</description></item><item><title>Richardson wants 'zero troops' in Iraq</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/06/19/229879.aspx#230266</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 Jun 2007 22:47:38 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:230266</guid><dc:creator>Harry O., Cleveland</dc:creator><description>Hell yes &amp;nbsp;-- &amp;nbsp;full speed ahead in Afghanistan! Y'all have converted me for certain-sure! The population will greet our troop increases with showers of flowers. None of the &amp;quot;occupier/occupy-ee&amp;quot; dynamics now at work in Iraq will occur in Afghanistan. We will not find ourselves in the middle of a civil war. We fully understand the social dynamics of the country, this time. The insurgents will not hide out in the impenetrable mountains until the time is ripe for a costly counter-offensive, nor will they blend into the general population of the cities and pick us off one or two at a time, making it necessary to kill whole cartloads of bystanders to get at the enemy. The Taliban will be more than happy to meet our armies face-to-face and settle this thing like honest-to-god Men, on a regulation Field of Battle which favors our military style. The families and friends of the locals we've slaughtered so far (and have yet to slaughter) will not themselves become our enemies, but will just forgive and forget the way Middle Easterners are wont to do. Al-Queda will not be a factor there, and it will not become a breeding ground for terrorists. It will not take 30 to 50 years to establish a good (but still weak enough for us to push around) central government, trusted and beloved by Afghanis and Americans alike. We will not forget all about bin Laden as the war expands with our expanded presence and we acquire scads of fresh and pressing targets daily; and the folks there will be only to glad to let us shut down their poppy fields (or are we there to protect them &amp;nbsp;-- &amp;nbsp;I forget, because poppy production has soared under US occupation ... ). It is NOT a quagmire, and sometimes you have to destroy a nation in order to save it. Count me in! Can't wait!! I yield to this forum's superior wisdom; which, unlike the wisdom which led us into Iraq, is not based on wishful thinking and best-case-only scenarios, but on a complete and solid assessment of the complexities of the situation in its entirety &amp;nbsp;-- &amp;nbsp;both military and political &amp;nbsp;-- &amp;nbsp;and a thorough understanding of just exactly what we're getting into this time. Check y'all out in 5 years or so, see what you think at that time of the GI body count which seems so affordable today ... &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; </description></item><item><title>Richardson wants 'zero troops' in Iraq</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/06/19/229879.aspx#230365</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 Jun 2007 00:49:44 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:230365</guid><dc:creator>Russell in Maryland</dc:creator><description>Tear down the embassy and bases on the way out.</description></item><item><title>Richardson wants 'zero troops' in Iraq</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/06/19/229879.aspx#230492</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 Jun 2007 05:17:19 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:230492</guid><dc:creator>Jane, Southern Mississippi</dc:creator><description>Everyone, write your senators and representatives and tell them our troops need a type of body armor called dragonskin. &amp;nbsp;</description></item><item><title>Richardson wants 'zero troops' in Iraq</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/06/19/229879.aspx#230541</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 Jun 2007 11:52:29 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:230541</guid><dc:creator>Desmond</dc:creator><description>Pursuing bin Laden and his orginization was a goal promised to us by our President on a pile of rubble, two days after 9/11. Why didn't he keep his promise?Instead, he led America into an invasion of another country under false pretenses. Why? If you ask him, to this day he says God told him it was the right thing to do. The bible says to beware false prophets.This so called Christian nation should have listended to that sentence of the Bible.</description></item><item><title>Richardson wants 'zero troops' in Iraq</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/06/19/229879.aspx#230782</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 Jun 2007 16:07:07 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:230782</guid><dc:creator>Lee Holmes</dc:creator><description>Nobody sounds as much like Jimmy Carter as Jimmy Carter,who is growing more illogical by the day.His comments that HAMAS conducted a ''skillful,disciplined''operation in Gaza were patently disgusting.The ''disciplined''do not throw teenagers off of four-story buildings,nor do they fire into crowds of protesters nor do they dress as refugees[removing their own uniforms first.A blatant violation of Geneva],in order to throw grenades at both Gazans and Israelis at the same time nor do they pack ambulances bearing the devices of Red Crescents with arms.Carters wheels have come off of his mental wagon if he thinks that there is ''skill''and ''discipline''in such terroristic acts.</description></item><item><title>Richardson wants 'zero troops' in Iraq</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/06/19/229879.aspx#332984</link><pubDate>Sat, 25 Aug 2007 23:09:20 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:332984</guid><dc:creator>J. Starnz, Texas</dc:creator><description>Iraq and US in Bible and Koran&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Read down to the very bottom, IT'LL GIVE YOU GOOSEBUMPS!!! VERY INTERESTING- &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1. The Garden of Eden was in Iraq &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2. Mesopotamia, which is now Iraq, was the cradle of civilization!&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;3.Noah built the ark in Iraq &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;4. The Tower of Babel was in Iraq &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;5. Abraham was from Ur, which is in Southern Iraq !&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;6. Isaac's wife Rebekahis from Nahor, which is in Iraq !&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;7. Jacob met Rachel in Iraq &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;8. Jonah preached in Nineveh - which is in Iraq &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;9. Assyria, which is in Iraq, conquered the ten tribes of Israel &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;10. Amos cried out in Iraq !&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;11 Babylon, which is in Iraq, destroyed Jerusalem &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;12. Daniel was in the lion's den in Iraq !&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;13. The three Hebrew children were in the fire in Iraq (Jesus had been in Iraq also as the fourth person in the Fiery Furnace!) &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;14. Belshazzar, the King of Babylon saw the &amp;quot;writing on the wall&amp;quot; in Iraq &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;15. Nebuchadnezzar, King of Babylon, carried the Jews captive into Iraq &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;16. Ezekiel preached in Iraq ... &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;17. The wise men were from Iraq ..&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;18. Peter preached in Iraq .&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;19. The &amp;quot;Empire of Man&amp;quot; described in Revelation is called Babylon , which was a city in Iraq ! &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;And you have probably seen this one: Israel is the nation most often mentioned in the Bible. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;But do you know which nation is second? &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;It is Iraq ! &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;However, that is not the name that is used in the Bible. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The names used in the Bible are Babylon , Land of Shinar , and Mesopotamia ... The word Mesopotamia means between the two rivers, more exactly between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers .. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The name Iraq, means country with deep roots.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Indeed Iraq is a country with deep roots and is a very significant country in the Bible. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;No other nation, except Israel , has more history and prophecy associated&lt;br&gt;With it than Iraq &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;And also, This is something to think about: Since America is typically represented by an eagle. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Saddam should have read up on his Muslim passages ...&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The following verse is from the Koran, (the Islamic Bible) &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Koran ( 9:11 ) - For it is written that a son of Arabia would awaken a fearsome Eagle. The wrath of the Eagle would be felt throughout the lands of Allah and lo, while some of the people trembled in despair still more rejoiced; for the wrath of the Eagle cleansed the lands of Allah; &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;And there was peace. &lt;br&gt;(Note the verse number!) Hmmmmmmm?!</description></item></channel></rss>