Senate rejected call to withdrawl of forces from Iraq/end of year

House erupts in heated debate on Iraq
Meanwhile, Senate rejects call for combat troop withdrawal by year's end

Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images “The administration continues to dig a hole,” House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said about the war.
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• Conflict in Iraq

Updated: 52 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - The Senate rejected a call for the withdrawal of U.S. combat forces from Iraq by year’s end on Thursday as Congress erupted in impassioned, election-year debate over a conflict that now has claimed the lives of 2,500 American troops.

The vote was 93-6 to shelve the proposal, which would have allowed “only forces that are critical to completing the mission of standing up Iraqi security forces” to remain in 2007.

The vote came alongside a daylong debate in the House, where Republicans defended the war as key to winning the global struggle against terrorism while Democrats excoriated President Bush and his policies.

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