WASHINGTON — An amendment calling for a short timetable to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq faced a crushing defeat Thursday, failing 86-13.
The Senate also was voting on a second Democratic amendment that had a longer and more open-ended schedule for withdraw. It too was expected to fail. The tallies were taken after finishing up about an hour and a half of debate on the measures following a late night session that ended near midnight Wednesday.
The failed amendments, sponsored by Sens. John Kerry of Massachusetts and Russ Feingold of Wisconsin, a former and possible future presidential candidate respectively, called for troops to be out of Iraq and redeployed elsewhere in the region by July 1, 2007.
“This is not cut and run. This is a smart way to win the War on Terror,” Kerry said in the debate Wednesday.
Really? I didn’t think Democrats thought Iraq was part of the war on terror …
The other amendment, sponsored by Sens. Carl Levin of Michigan, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee, and Jack Reed of Rhode Island, called for troops to begin pulling out of Iraq on Dec. 31 of this year. The nonbinding resolution would not set a deadline of when all forces must be withdrawn
Allah reports that that amendment didn’t pass, either.
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Is it something they all drink? Is that what drives such stupidity?
We tell the terrorists when we’re leaving and then we win! Yeah, sKerry, that works!
Comment by benning @ 6/22/2006 - 1:34 pm
benning….they want to be able to use the same Marxist sloguns they did during Viet Nam. The fact that there’s no draft is really messing with their grand narrative. When something the Left needs doesn’t exist, they just invent it.
- Bang
Comment by Big Bang Hunter @ 6/22/2006 - 2:04 pm
OK, so can we quit taking repeated votes on this issue?
Comment by Chuck Simmins @ 6/22/2006 - 2:21 pm
“Really? I didn’t think Democrats thought Iraq was part of the war on terror …”
- Good catch ST - One of the very predictable, and only endearing aspect, of the Lefts mantra’s, is that sooner or later they’ll slip up, falling prey to the “tangled web of lies we weave” troupe. Never fails…
- Bang
Comment by Big Bang Hunter @ 6/22/2006 - 2:48 pm
Lurch got a few more votes this time. At this rate he should have enough by 2020.
Comment by Tom @ 6/22/2006 - 5:52 pm
He believed Iraq was not a part of the war on terror, until he believed that Iraq was a part of the war on terror.
Typical Kerry logic.
Comment by NC Cop @ 6/22/2006 - 6:19 pm
Cap’n I’m givin’ it all she’s got but I can’t hold her fer much longer!
Comment by forest hunter @ 6/22/2006 - 7:04 pm
I have a long post coming…with links.
Comment by G Monster @ 6/22/2006 - 7:14 pm
Chuck, this was a different bill. The first vote was on the ‘cut and run’ bill. This vote was on the ’sever and skedaddle’ bill. they are very different.
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Comment by sanity @ 6/22/2006 - 11:49 pm