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Posted: Tuesday, 30 May 2006 2:09PM

Boxer Wants Troops Out of Iraq By Year's End

San Francisco, Calif. (KCBS)  -- U.S Senator Barbara Boxer plans to introduce a resolution in the Senate calling for the withdrawal of American troops from Iraq within six months, if not earlier.

The California Senator, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, held a news conference today at San Francisco's War Memorial Building.

KCBS Reporter Barbara Taylor said the resolution conveys both strong language and a sense of irony, noting that each goal set by the Bush Administration has been met, whether it's eliminating Saddam Hussein or democratic elections.

The senator said there's simply no more reason to be there and lots of reasons to get out.

"Right now it's a drip, drip, drip of pain. It's a drip, drip, drip of horror," she said.

Boxer was asked to introduce this resolution calling for the withdrawal of troops within six months by two mothers with sons stationed there.

Ann Russler's son Michael was in the army's 82nd airborne during all three Iraqi elections.

"He called me and said this is as close to a win as we're ever going to get. And we need to get out now. And if we don't get out now, we're looking at another Vietnam."

The Boxer resolution isn't likely to be approved, but it does show a growing dissatisfaction in Congress with the failure of the Bush Administration to bring the war to a quick resolution.

 

 


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