Sen. Russ Feingold, an outspoken critic of the war in Iraq who long has sought to have U.S. troops out by the end of the year, on Monday endorsed a new deadline: July 1, 2007.
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Feingold joined hands with other liberals, including Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts, the unsuccessful Democratic candidate for president in 2004, in proposing the new deadline.
They plan today to introduce an amendment, which sets the stage for a long, heated debate in the Senate this week.
As public supports for the war wanes, theirs will be one of two competing Democratic measures. The debate may begin as early as today.
The other amendment says troop redeployments should begin this year but is otherwise silent on timing and has no deadline.
Feingold and Kerry are joined by Sen. Barbara Boxer of California.
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist declared Tuesday that "surrendering is not a solution" in Iraq as Democrats embraced a proposal to start U.S. troop withdrawals this year and the GOP-controlled Senate opened debate on it.
"We cannot retreat. We cannot surrender. We cannot go wobbly. The price is far too high," Frist, R-Tenn, said on the Senate floor, suggesting that Democrats want to do just that
If this is the battle, I feel very good that the Right will win. Unless things really get bad in Iraq, I have to think that if the Right makes a good case, the American people will want to win for once, and not let liberals make us lose again.
If you add the immigration debate, the Right should be on the right side of the two most important issues for Americans
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He must have a bet on the Al Qaeda takeover of Iraq being sometime after 7/2/07.
What other reason could there be for announcing a day of departure?
Dumb FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF!
Unlike the People's Republic of Illinois, Wisconsin is a moderate state. Kerry only won it by 10,000 votes. Why do you guys send a crazy man like Feingold to Washington?
A picture says a thousand words. (Or two, in this case.)
that is exactly what is happening..great pic..sad reality that the United States has a political party that causes the country failure...the Right was not in power in WWII...and they didn't pull the crap the Dem's pull now..
they are more wrong on this than ANY OTHER ISSUE...
The only time any progress has been made in this entire occupation is when deadlines were set. Have a constitution on this day, have an election on this day, etc. They have no stake in getting it together otherwise. You guys are blind ot reality.
And if we leave they will have to beg for help from the international community. Let them die for a while. Warmongers!
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