Senate Rejects Troop Pullout
Charles Johnson
Thu Jun 15, 2006 at 2:02 pm PDT • Views: 180
A cut-and-run proposal has been thoroughly defeated in the Senate: Senate rejects U.S. troop pullout in Iraq.
WASHINGTON - The Senate rejected a call for the withdrawal of U.S. combat forces from Iraq by year’s end on Thursday as Congress erupted in impassioned, election-year debate over a conflict that now has claimed the lives of 2,500 American troops.
The vote was 93-6 to shelve the proposal, which would have allowed “only forces that are critical to completing the mission of standing up Iraqi security forces” to remain in 2007.
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