WASHINGTON, June 19 (UPI) -- Iraq policy has already been cited as an issue in the 2006 midterm elections, with at least one candidate focusing his election campaign on an exit plan.
Rep. Harold Ford Jr., D-Tenn., launched his Senate campaign by saying in a TV commercial that it's time to consider bringing U.S. troops home from Iraq, the Washington Post reported Sunday.
In the TV spot, Ford praises U.S. military forces and then says: "Let's work hard to bring them home soon, and with honor, and make them as proud of us as we are of them."
"Since Sept, 11 (2001), the country and Congress have given the president the benefit of the doubt, from the Patriot Act to the efforts in Afghanistan to the resolution on Iraq to now the war and postwar efforts," Ford told the Post. "Now many people are realizing that a new approach and some new ideas are needed."
