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General slams GOP senators on Iraq policy

WASHINGTON, July 18 (UPI) --

A former senior U.S. combat general in Iraq Wednesday slammed GOP
senators for opposing legislation to evacuate U.S. forces there.

Retired Maj. Gen. John Batiste, former division commanding general in
Iraq, said he was "disappointed" in the way most Republican senators
voted to oppose the Democrat-backed legislation that passed the U.S.
House of Representatives last week.

President George W. Bush is expected to veto the measure.

"As a lifelong Republican, I am disappointed with the minority in the
Senate," said Batiste, who serves on the board of VoteVets.org, an
anti-Iraq war activist organization.

"Without a real diplomatic, economic, and political surge in Iraq, the
President is continuing to sacrifice American blood and dollars on a
conflict that cannot be militarily resolved, and most Republicans have
just voted to rubber-stamp that.

"Our incredible all-volunteer force cannot sustain the current pace
and America desperately needs a focused Middle East strategy," Batiste
said.

"Conservatives never have stood for using our military for nation
building or refereeing civil wars, and unfortunately politicians like
many Republicans in the Senate are getting away from that. Their vote
was inconsistent with a true, conservative, pro-military policy."

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And, more importantly, Republicans in the Senate are definitely
un-American.

Harry