Possible White House hopefuls unite on Iraqhttp://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060621/ap_on_go_co/us_iraq"Our country desperately needs a new vision for strengthening our national security, and it starts by redeploying U.S. forces out of Iraq," Sens. John Kerry of Massachusetts and Russ Feingold of Wisconsin wrote in an e-mail sent to 3 million people nationwide.
"It's time for every member of the Senate to send an important message that we must change course," the senators wrote, imploring recipients to "take a stand against the senseless 'stay the course' Bush policy" and tell their senators to vote with the two Democrats.
Led by Levin, Senate Democrats have spent the past week writing a proposal on Iraq that could get wide support among their rank and file. At the same time, Kerry and Feingold announced they would press their own separate proposals calling for a quick U.S. withdrawal from Iraq.
A somewhat curious pairing, the two joined forces — and offered one amendment — after failing in private meetings to convince fellow Democrats that the so-called "consensus" proposal should include what they call "a date certain" for all U.S. forces to have left Iraq.
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