Former senator George McGovern and William R. Polk, a leading authority on the Middle East, offer a detailed plan for a speedy troop withdrawal from Iraq.During the phased withdrawal, to begin on December 31, 2006, and to be completed by June 30, 2007, they recommend that the Iraq government engage the temporary services of an international stabilization force to police the country. Other elements in the withdrawal plan include an independent accounting of American expenditures of Iraqi funds, reparations to Iraqi civilians for lives lost and property destroyed, immediate release of all prisoners of war, the closing of American detention centers, and offering to void all contracts for petroleum exploration, development, and marketing made during the American occupation.
George S. McGovern Knihy
George Stanley McGovern, syn metodistického pastora, vyrostl v Jižní Dakotě. McGovern, který byl v mládí nevšímavým studentem, později připsal účast ve středoškolské debatě tomu, že mu dodala sebevědomí. Po válce McGovern pokračoval ve studiu a v roce 1953 získal doktorát z historie na Northwestern University. McGovern, který pracoval jako profesor historie a politologie na Dakota Wesleyan University, se zapojil do politiky Demokratické strany. Jako senátor USA se McGovern stal jedním z prvních odpůrců intervence své země ve Vietnamu. McGovern, který se neúspěšně ucházel o nominaci své strany na prezidenta v roce 1968, vyhrál v roce 1972, ale v roce 1980 byl poražen. McGovern strávil pozdější roky různými soukromými aktivitami, včetně psaní.




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