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Fierce election-year debate on Iraq spilled over into a second week on Capitol Hill with Senate Democrats lining up behind proposals to start U.S. troop withdrawals
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caneca stanley tegy.In what Republicans and Democrats alike are billing as perhaps the Senate s largest debate on Iraq since the war began in spring 2003, the Senate is to take up at least one of the resolutions Tuesday and vote on it sometime this week. This amendment effectively calls on the United States to cut and run from Iraq. Let me be clear: retreat is not a solution. Our national security requires us to follow through on our commitments, said Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn. Artificial deadlines are not the solution mdash; and those calling for an early withdraw
stanley quencher al of American troops from Iraq utterly fail to understand the potentially catastrophic implications of their proposal, Frist argued. Cutting and running is bad policy that threatens our national security and poses unacceptable risks to Americans. Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., disputed Frist s characterization of the Democrats nonbinding resolution on Iraq and stressed that it would not set a firm deadline by which all forces must be out of the war zone. The administration s policy to date, that we ll be there for as long as Iraq needs us, will result in Iraq s depending on us longer, said Levin, top-ranking De
