Joint Chiefs of Staff
Posted at 2:00pm on Feb. 29, 2008 Mullen: No Warning to Democrats on Iraq
Chairman's Staff Responds to ABC Story
By Mark I
Pejman Yousefzadeh did a good job covering a report on ABC News that Joint Chiefs Chairman Adm. Michael Mullen issued a warning to the Democratic presidential candidates not to pull out of Iraq too fast. Mullen was quoted saying:
"I do worry about a rapid withdrawal. . . [that would] turn around the gains we have achieved and struggled to achieve and turn them around overnight."
I also covered the story for AOL's The Political Machine. Mullen's staff has now responded to that story and rejected the characterization that the Chairman was issuing a warning to the Democratic candidates.
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