Richardson Wants U.S. Out of Iraq By End of 2007

ABC News’ Teddy Davis reports: While speaking to a Democratic presidential candidates forum in Washington, D.C., Gov. Bill Richardson, D-N.M, pushed for a quick exit from the war in Iraq.

"As someone who served in Congress for 14 years," Richardson said, "I know the power they hold should they choose to wild it. The Congress passed a resolution authorizing war. They need to pass another that overturns that authorization. And brings our troops home by the end of this year. You would think that when the Congress realized that they were lied to, they would have done something about it. Well, they still can."

Richardson explained his rationale for leaving Iraq by saying that the United States has "done in Iraq what we said we would do."

"We have rid the world of a brutal dictator. We have brought about free and fair elections three times over. The Iraqis now have a constitution, over 200,000 armed soldiers, and they have oil revenue," said Richardson. "A struggle for human rights is worhty of military intervention. A true threat to our country’s security is worhty of war. But a struggle between a country’s warring factions, where both sides hate the United States, is not worhty of one more lost American life."