OSSIPEE – Democratic presidential expectant Bill Richardson told a meeting of Carroll County Democrats yesterday afternoon that his first action as President would be to "get us out of the combat.''
His declaration was greeted with clapping from about 60 people who turned out for his promotion campaign stop in the former Carroll County federal court, as were later comments that he would close down the jail at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where terrorist suspects have been under arrest for more than five years.
"I will re-establish the right of habeas corpus. Torture is not suitable. I will be a President who goes according to the Constitution of the United States,'' said Richardson, latest Mexico governor and previous Clinton cabinet member who has before expressed his support for withdrawing American armed forces from Iraq by the ending of the year.
"We're caught up in a foreign policy tragedy in Iraq,'' said Richardson, who also talked about an extensive domestic agenda that he said would be rewarded for by redirecting the $450 billion going into Iraq into fitness care, education and energy schemes in this country.
He said that dealing with international terror campaign and nuclear propagation are the two most significant foreign policy matters facing the country. He called for intensification the American attempt in Afghanistan while taking the trail of "talking to our opponent'' when it comes to dealing with nuclear propagation.
Richardson said he would make energy self-government his top domestic main concern by working to expand biofuels and biodiesel while setting a objective of cars that would get 50 miles per gallon.