GOP Sen. Snowe to Sponsor Bill to Start Iraq Exit
Anne Flaherty, reporting for the Associated Press writes: "Sen. Olympia Snowe on Wednesday became the second Republican to embrace a bill ordering troops out of Iraq as President Bush's national security adviser tried to stop defections from the White House war policy. Snowe (R-Maine) joined Sen. Gordon Smith (R-Ore.) in co-sponsoring a bill that would require troops to start leaving in 120 days. The bill also would end combat by April 30, 2008.
https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/071107A.shtml
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Senators push anew to force troop pullout
Boston Globe
07/11/07
Senator Olympia J. Snowe of Maine declared yesterday that ‘the tide has turned’ against President Bush’s Iraq war strategy among her fellow Republicans, as Bush fought to control growing disenchantment on Capitol Hill. While the president told a friendly audience in Cleveland that Congress must give his security plan a chance to work, senators in both parties yesterday began a new push to force a troop withdrawal or to sharply limit the US mission in Iraq. Vice President Dick Cheney and other high-ranking administration officials talked to lawmakers to try to stave off new defections...
https://tinyurl.com/2arl5p
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Iraq+exit
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=GOP
https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/071107A.shtml
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Senators push anew to force troop pullout
Boston Globe
07/11/07
Senator Olympia J. Snowe of Maine declared yesterday that ‘the tide has turned’ against President Bush’s Iraq war strategy among her fellow Republicans, as Bush fought to control growing disenchantment on Capitol Hill. While the president told a friendly audience in Cleveland that Congress must give his security plan a chance to work, senators in both parties yesterday began a new push to force a troop withdrawal or to sharply limit the US mission in Iraq. Vice President Dick Cheney and other high-ranking administration officials talked to lawmakers to try to stave off new defections...
https://tinyurl.com/2arl5p
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Iraq+exit
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=GOP
rudkla - 11. Jul, 23:46
