Reply #7: Blow to Bush as Another Republican Deserts on Iraq (Snowe) [View All]

Source: Agence France-Presse

Blow to Bush as another Republican deserts on Iraq
14 minutes ago

WASHINGTON (AFP) - President George W. Bush suffered a fresh blow on Iraq Wednesday, as another Republican senator joined a growing party revolt against his war strategy, declaring it at odds with reality.

Senator Olympia Snowe of Maine decided to co-sponsor a proposal written by a senior Democrat that would set a binding deadline of the end of April next year for US troops to be brought home.

"We have arrived at the crossroads of hope and reality, and we must now address the reality," Snowe said, after a period of reflection on whether to support new Senate challenges to Bush war policy. "We need to send a strong message from the United States Congress on behalf of the American people that the current strategy is unacceptable and that we must move in a different course," she said.

Snowe was the latest Republican senator to part with Bush on the war, days ahead of an interim report on latest political and military developments in Iraq, which is driving emotional Senate debate on future war policy.


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