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Kerry: 60+ senators support change of course in Iraq |
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By Klaus Marre
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Posted: 07/17/07 01:45 PM [ET] |
Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) told The Hill Tuesday that he believes more than 60 senators would vote for a change in the Iraq strategy if they were allowed to vote their conscience on a measure to redeploy U.S. troops.
At a press conference on the measure, Kerry said it is time for senators not just to tell their colleagues in private conversations that they oppose the course President Bush has chosen, but to vote that way, too.
But he also noted that he is “pleased [that] there is growing bipartisanship on the issue of forcing a course change.”
Republican Sens. Olympia Snowe (Maine) and Gordon Smith (Ore.) joined Kerry and the cosponsors of the measure, Sens. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) and Jack Reed (D-R.I.), at the press conference to voice their support for the amendment.
Snowe said it is critical for Congress to speak out and represent the American people, who support a course change.
“We are at a crossroads between hope and reality,” the Maine senator said.
Kerry agreed, saying, “This is the time, this is the moment” for a course change.
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