Senate Allies of Bush Work to Halt Iraq Vote
Will the Senate be able to vote down the President's proposal to send more troops? A vote will be coming up soon and everyone will be watching. Keep in mind it is a non-binding vote but could send a strong message. And by everyone watching, I mean a relatively low percentage of the American public, the ones engaged.
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I think that the legislation that Feingold proposed is a strong possibility. It dosn't call for a complete withdrawl of all the forces in Iraq. It just simply states that 6 months from now we will only help their government obtain a stronger military and protection from major insurgencies toward politcal figures. This would then be basically what we do for every major country that we have uninvidedly made our militaty's new home. Stay longer than asked.
One of the things that is very evident in this article is that the democrats want to pull out of Iraq. The article stated that the United States always stays longer in countries then is wanted. Evidence of this can be seen history, Cuba just being one example. Most of Congresses is opposed to the 21,500 additional troops that Bush wants to send over to Iraq.
Some of the democrats want to know just what is being planned in Iraq. Senator Levin and Senator McCain wrote a letter to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to try to get her to make public the administration’s requirements for actions to be taken by the government in Baghdad to earn continued American support. While this seems like it would be nice to know, I do not think that this will go anywhere.
One thing that I agree with though in the article is Feingold's proposal to take troops out unless helping their military or police. I agree with this because I do not think we can tell the Iraqi government how to run things and have our military in Iraq.
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