Democrats to propose withdrawing US troops from Iraq within one year

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Democrats to propose withdrawing US troops from Iraq within one year

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WASHINGTON (AFP) - Senate Democrats prepared to introduce legislation that would pull US troops out of Iraq within one year's time.

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"This week, the Senate will have a chance to say to the Iraqi people that as of the middle of next year, this becomes your responsibility," Durbin, the number-two Senate Democrat, said in a preview of the debate expected to take place Wednesday or Thursday.

"We will give you 12 months -- and more American lives and more American dollars -- then Iraq, you have to stand up and defend yourself," Durbin said of the legislation that would call for the withdrawal of US forces from Iraq by July 1, 2007.

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One of the primary authors of the legislation, Senator John Kerry, told US television Tuesday that 12 months is "more than enough time ... to do what has to be done to get our troops home, and to get the Iraqis standing up on their own."

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