The U.S. Senate is scheduled today to take up an amendment to the Defense Authorization bill, proposed by Senators John Kerry and Russ Feingold, that sets a deadline of July 1, 2007, for all American forces to be redeployed out of Iraq. It will not pass.
It will not pass for three reasons: Republicans want to use Iraq, and its 21,000 American casualties, as an election year bludgeon against "cut and run" Democrats; some Democrats still can't bring themselves to admit...
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