Congressional Candidate sees Iraq War Plan validated

Congressional Candidate sees Iraq War Plan validated

Fayetteville, NC – Three tour Iraq war veteran Will Breazeale, candidate for Congress in North Carolina’s 7th district, and a major in the Army Reserve, said today he is encouraged by the report that Prime Minister Gordon Brown believes Iraq could assume security control of southern Basra province from British forces within two months. This dovetails exactly with what Breazeale has been saying since his return from Iraq earlier this year.
Breazeale’s plan proposes would turn over the security protection duties for sections of Iraq to the Iraqis as the local forces are deemed ready. Province by province, city by city. He envisions reducing the overall US and Allies presence there to roughly half the current deployment, with 30,000 manning a permanent base in northern Iraq and another 40,000 remaining temporarily in Baghdad only until the stability and security of their government is achieved. Breazeale said “this plan puts pressure on the Iraqi Security Forces to defend their own country to the maximum extent possible.”
Breazeale said “I believe that as the new free government in Iraq grows stronger and more stable, these other governments in the region are seeing the value to themselves of a stable, free, non aggressive neighbor”.
Breazeale cited a Reuters’ report from Oct.1, indicating many other Islamic countries like Indonesia, Azerbaijan and the United Arab Emirates have agreed to send ambassadors to Baghdad. Iraq's foreign minister Hoshiyar Zebari is quoted as saying "We have been able to discern a perceptible shift in favor of Iraq by many countries which until now had been much less engaged. These impressions were confirmed during meetings last week at the United Nations in New York."
Breazeale concluded saying, “the evidence keeps coming in that the surge is working, the US troops in Iraq are doing their jobs well and they will be returning home victorious”.
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