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Mike Huckabee: Iraqis Must Be More Involved
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, a GOP presidential hopeful for 2008, said the Iraqi government must take more responsibility for the situation in its own country, but he would not set a timetable for U.S. troop withdrawal from that region.
Huckabee, appearing as a guest on Fox News Channel’s "The Live Desk with Martha MacCallum," said the United States should not be expected to establish democracy in Iraq on its own.
"We need to make sure that the people in the region are going to be participants,” Huckabee said. "The U.S. cannot pay for it all and we can’t put all of the personnel together. Whether it’s the Saudis, the Egyptians, the Jordanians, the Syrians – this is their neighborhood, and if it’s going to go up in flames, they are going to be the first ones scorched.”
Huckabee supports the effort to add a surge of U.S. troops to Iraq in order to improve security, but he is disappointed in the Iraqi government’s reaction toward a fledgling democracy there.
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"They must be much more involved in bringing safety and security there,” he said. "We need to make it clear to the Iraqi government that we can’t love their freedom more than they do. If they’re not willing to set aside their sectarian violence and quit killing themselves, there is going to be a limit. I don’t think we put a specific timeframe, but we make it clear that we are going to disengage if they don’t engage in their own security.”
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