Edwards calls war on terror a "bumper sticker".

The U.S.-led war on terrorism is "a bumper sticker, not a plan" that has weakened Washington's global standing, Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards said on Wednesday as he unveiled his defense policy plans.

In an address to the Council on Foreign Relations, Edwards urged the U.S. Congress to use its funding power to force an immediate pullout of up to 50,000 U.S. combat troops from Iraq, then a full withdrawal within a year.


Edwards, who was the Democratic Party's vice presidential candidate in 2004, said as president he would close the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, restore the ability of detainees to take legal action against unlawful imprisonment and ban torture.

"The war on terror is a slogan designed only for politics, not a strategy to make America safe. It's a bumper sticker, not a plan," Edwards said. "It has damaged our alliances and weakened our standing in the world."


"By framing this as a 'war,' we have walked straight into the trap that the terrorists have set -- that we are engaged in some kind of clash of civilizations and a war against Islam," said the former senator from North Carolina.

Finally some straight talk from Edwards about this war! I am hungry for some honest debate on what Bush and company have done to our country and how they have sold this bullshit war by playing on the damaged emotions of our population after 9-11.

I want Edwards, Feinstein, and Murtha to bring the fight to these Republicans and spineless Democrats and tell it like it really is.

America wants out of the war!

There is no debate about that.

And for the Democrats in the Senate and the House to be too worried about their political futures to make the hard choices is a betrayal to the voters that sent them there. They need to do whatever they have to to get us out! Now!