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FROM THE LIBERTARIAN PARTY:
Libertarian Party reiterates its call for Iraq withdrawal

Talk of Iraq in Monday's State of the Union address reignites Party's call for Iraq exit

Quick Quotes:
William Redpath, National Chairman, Libertarian Party
• "President Bush's State of the Union address once again emphasized his desire to remain in Iraq without any finite objective or operational goal."
• "Each day we remain in Iraq is a rebuke of the promise we have made to the members of our Armed Forces."

Shane Cory, Executive Director, Libertarian Party
• "The president says he will return our troops 'on success,' but never identifies what this 'success' is."
• "Without a realistic endgame, the president is setting America up for a perpetual state of war for decades to come."

Washington, D.C. - After Monday's State of the Union address delivered by President George W. Bush, the Libertarian Party is renewing its call for a safe and timely troop withdrawal from Iraq. "President Bush's State of the Union address once again emphasized his desire to remain in Iraq without any finite objective or operational goal," says William Redpath, chairman of the Libertarian Party.

"While we are pleased to see a decline in violence in Iraq, this should by no means become a mandate for sustaining our presence in the country," says Redpath. "We were wrong for invading Iraq, and we as a country have paid for that mistake in dollars and blood. Our obligation is not to Iraq, or any other nation in the world. Our obligation is to our soldiers: to keep them as safe as possible and to use them only in the direct defense of our nation. Each day we remain in Iraq is a rebuke of the promise we have made to the members of our Armed Forces."

The Libertarian Party believes in a non-interventionist foreign policy, which stresses trade with all nations of the world, but condemns pre-emptive warfare that initiates hostilities. The Libertarian Party believes the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq violated this non-interventionist stance.

"The president says he will return our troops 'on success,' but never identifies what this 'success' is," says Shane Cory, executive director of the Libertarian Party and a Marine Corps veteran. "Is success a free and democratic Iraq? Is success an Iraq without terrorists? Is success a peaceful Iraq? All of these are things that most of America wants to see, but they are not clear and reasonable objectives for our military to achieve. Without a realistic endgame, the president is setting America up for a perpetual state of war for decades to come."

"We must leave Iraq as quickly as possible in a matter that is consistent with the safety of our troops," Redpath concludes. "Democracy cannot come from the barrel of a gun, and to try to force it into existence only results in catastrophe. Every day that we continue the occupation of Iraq is another day that our troops are in harm's way and another day that we have failed to learn from our mistakes."

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