AP Some cities will vote on Iraq withdrawal (WI, IL, etc)

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061025/ap_on_el_st_lo/iraq_pullout_ballot_2

Some cities will vote on Iraq withdrawal

By JAY LINDSAY, Associated Press Writer 58 minutes ago

BOSTON - For a week and a half, 81-year-old Hamer Lacey hauled his broken back and clipboard to a Gloucester grocery store parking lot, looking for signatures of residents who shared his fervent opposition to the war in
Iraq.

His work over the summer put Gloucester among 139 Massachusetts communities where residents will vote next month on a nonbinding question that calls for an immediate U.S. withdrawal from Iraq.

Voters in several cities in Wisconsin and Illinois will consider a similar question.

Organizers said they do not expect the results to turn U.S. policy around. But they said the outcome could at least make the growing anti-war sentiment clear to the policymakers.

"There's a gap between what the public wants and what public officials want," said Steve Burns of the Wisconsin Network for Peace and Justice. "They're not acting in our name. We hope, in time, we can bring them around."

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1. CH

I think Chapel Hill, North Carolina was also considering that.

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2. uh oh what if my city decides to invade costa rica ?

no I know, i'm just joking

it's sweet it's a gesture it is hear warming ... but so far only the progressive cities are taking steps on Kyoto, etc

what if tomorrow those super red cities start their own foreign policy their own policy