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The Nation
by Tom Hayden

06/07/10

With eighteen Democratic senators voting for Russ Feingold’s legislative call for withdrawal from Afghanistan, is a long and bloody end to the Afghanistan quagmire in sight? Feingold says he was ‘encouraged’ by the May 27 vote in spite of its rejection, particularly because of support from most of the Senate’s Democratic leadership: senators Richard Durbin, Charles Schumer and Patty Murray. Feingold noted that his amendment was only the first Senate attempt to vote on withdrawal in the decade-long war. Only thirteen senators voted for his first attempt to require a similar timetable for Iraq, ‘and today, a timetable is exactly what is in place in Iraq.’ After that first vote in 2007, the combined Senate support for either Feingold’s deadline or softer legislation by Senator Carl Levin calling for gradual withdrawal to begin, rose to majority support in 2008, under the pressure of the antiwar movement and presidential primary politics.”

http://www.thenation.com/article/afghanistan-beginning-end


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Urge Congress to Support a Timetable for Military Withdrawal from Afghanistan

No to More Money for War, Yes to Feingold-McGovern bill for Withdrawal Timetable.
http://noescalation.org/2010/05/05/withdrawal-timetable/


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