By Klaus Marre
Tuesday March 27, 2007
Senate Democrats Tuesday afternoon won a key vote that clears the way for setting a date by which most U.S. troops would be required to leave Iraq.
Democrats defeated by a vote of 50-48 the Republican effort to strip language from the $122 billion-dollar Iraq supplemental spending bill that would require most combat soldiers to leave Iraq within a year.
Republican Sens. Chuck Hagel (Neb.) and Gordon Smith (Ore.) voted with the Democrats. Sen. Mark Pryor (D-Ark.) voted against the timetable, as did Sen. Joe Lieberman (Conn.) an Independent who caucuses with Democrats.
The victory likely will be symbolic because the White House has announced that President Bush will veto the legislation.
Democrats were unsure if they would prevail until the end of the vote.
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“Senate Democrats Tuesday afternoon won a key vote that clears the way for setting a date by which most U.S. troops would be required to leave Iraq”. Yea in a YEAR!!!
Alot can happen in a year. Try telling a soldier that he has to stay in that meat grinder for another year…Send all the Dems to fight in Iraq for that year.
The Dems don’t want this war to end they are using it to win the 08 election. The longer it goes on the better their chances are of winning.