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Looks like another rat’s jumping ship.

I shared with you yesterday about the now-total of six Republican senators officially calling for a course change in Iraq. Now, we may see some ripples starting among House Republicans, as well.

John Doolittle, a congressman from California, stated in a town hall meeting yesterday that U.S. troops should be pulled back from the front lines “as soon as possible” and that Iraqi force should take over.

Later, Doolittle referred to the situation in Iraq by the “Q-word” — quagmire.

How soon is “as soon as possible”. According to Doolittle, this means:

“We’ve got to get off the front lines as soon as possible…And in my mind that means something like the end of the year. We just can’t continue to tolerate these kinds of losses.

I don’t want to keep having our people dying on the front lines. I am increasingly convinced that we never are going to succeed in actually ending people dying (in Iraq). I think it’s going to be a constant conflict … and if that is going to happen … it needs to be the Iraqis dying and not the Americans.

…My belief is that the majority of my colleagues on the Republican side have become skeptical of all of this. And that’s a big change.”

Oh, by the way, Doolittle, as a House member, is up for reelection in ‘08. So, it’s not hard to see why the reversals are occurring.

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