On ABC's This Week (12/04/05, Stephanopoulos), Rep. John Murtha responded to Hadley's comments on troop redeployment saying, "I like this guy. I mean, he's starting to come around. He's starting to understand what the American people are saying, and what the Iraqi people are saying. ... He's coming around because he's talking about redeployment. He's talking about pulling our troops out. And I can see, by what he's saying, that we're going to be out of there by the end of the year or very close to it."

Murtha was referring to earlier comments by National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley where Hadley said the US may be ready to reduce the number of troops in Iraq if Iraqis continued making progress at the current pace.

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