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Senate Rejects Calls for Iraq Troop Withdrawal

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Posted on Jun 22, 2006

The stricter of the two bills being voted on--a measure that would have mandated a pullout by 2007--went down 86-13. The bill that didn’t have a timetable was defeated 60-39, with all but one Republican and six Democrats voting against the measure.

UPDATE: The Senate is weighing a modest troop reduction in the coming months.

AP:

The GOP-controlled Senate on Thursday rejected Democratic calls to start withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq by year’s end, as the two parties sought to define their election-year positions on a war that has grown increasingly unpopular.

“Withdrawal is not an option. Surrender is not a solution,” declared Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist of Tennessee, who characterized Democrats as defeatists wanting to abandon Iraq before the mission is complete.

Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid of Nevada, in turn, portrayed Republican leaders as blindly following President Bush’s “failed” stay-the-course strategy. “It is long past time to change course in Iraq and start to end the president’s open-ended commitment,” he said.

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By Pragmatique, June 22, 2006 at 3:08 pm #
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Of course the politicians in Washington are going to posture over “drawing down” the number of troops we have in Iraq. But that’s all it is, posturing. Both political parties have a vested interest in keeping the war going because they’re being paid plenty of money through “campaign contributions” by the very entities making a financial killing from the war.

All the Iraq civilans plus the US and colition forces being killed and maimed over the course of the war are really just collateral damage in the pursuit of corporate profits.

If the war is ever to stop, it’ll only stop when there’s no more profit in continuing, or when stopping it becomes a way to even more profits.

Our government is infested with immoral and unethical politicians from top to bottom, and both parties are conducting a well orchestrated charade meant to deceive the American voters into believing that there’s a meaningful political debate going on in Washington.

Pay no attention to anything the politicans may say, because they’re just well paid actors parading in front of television cameras pretending they’re representing the American people.

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By George S Semsel, June 22, 2006 at 1:33 pm #
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The votes by democrats over Iraq tell me why I cannot support that party any more than I can support the ones who created the war there.

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