The house vetoes an rejects anti-war lawmakers to force the American troops to withdraw from Afghanistan this week. The house vote was not even close with the rejection to be 356-65. Almost all Republicans were against this resolution and are supporting Obama's decision to increase the amount of US troops in Afghanistan from 70,000 to 100,000. The Democratics were against the war, but decided to vote against the withdraw of troops at Afghanistan because they believe it is unrealistic and not the right time. Obama said that he wants to start withdrawing U.S. troops from Afghanistan starting next year in July 2011.
I believe that the House must feel the importance of keeping troops there and hopefully Afghanistan would have a stable government in a near future. I think almost everyone wants the US troops to come back home as soon as possible, but given how complicated the circumstances are I think it just isn't possible to have them return now. Hopefully they could all start returning by July 2011 like Obama said.
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do you know who proposed the withdrawal of the troops?
because i remember from Obamas State of the Union that he did want to pull troops out of Afghanistan but not until next summer.
i was just wondering who thought it was the right time to pull them out now
From the article, "Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, authored the resolution".
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