Bill Richardson: redeploy troops to Afghanistan

In a speech to the New Hampshire Democratic Party, New Mexico governor Bill Richardson criticized John McCain’s Iraq strategy, and added to a growing chorus in calling to shift troops to Afghanistan. Richardson is yet undeclared as a presidential candidate, but his comments to Fox News a couple weeks ago--and his weekend stump speech in a key Primary state--are telling...

Bill Richardson Wants Troops Redeployed to Afghanistan      
Dec 16, by Daniel Maldonado: NM Governor Bill Richardson fired off his first political cannonball today and aimed it at Senator John McCain’s call to escalate troop levels in Iraq by an additional 30,000 soldiers.“There’s no military solution” Richardson, a Democrat, said. There’s got to be a political solution. Richardson lambasted McCain’s call for the additional troops saying that it would only foment sectarian violence.

Instead, Richardson suggested a fixed withdrawal date sometime in 2007 along with a redeployment of troops to Afghanistan which would aid America’s efforts to combat terrorism.