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Lamont speaks to YPU on Iraq

Former candidate says troops should leave country

Staff Reporter
Published Thursday, January 25, 2007

Amid the Yale Political Union’s characteristic rumbles of agreement and hisses of disagreement Wednesday night, former Democratic senatorial candidate Ned Lamont SOM ’80 called on Congress to force President George W. Bush ’68 to remove U.S. troops from Iraq.

Speaking to a group of students deeply divided on the issue, Lamont came down on the affirmative side of the debate “Resolved: Congress should force the president to withdraw from Iraq.” The continued U.S. presence in Iraq is exacerbating the sectional conflict in the area, he said, and it is time for the Bush administration...

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