By: DON THOMPSON - Associated Press
SACRAMENTO -- California voters could get a chance to register their opinions about the Iraq war under a bill that passed the state Senate Wednesday after a sharply partisan debate about whether the initiative could demoralize troops in the field.The Vote Us Out of Iraq measure would be an advisory question on the Feb. 5 presidential primary ballot and ask voters if they support an immediate withdrawal of troops.
It was sent to the Assembly on a 23-11 party-line vote and must win approval from that house and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to get on the ballot.
"Once again, we are a nation at war. And once again, the people want peace," the bill's author, Sen. President Pro Tem Don Perata, D-Oakland, told senators before the vote.
SACRAMENTO -- California voters could get a chance to register their opinions about the Iraq war under a bill that passed the state Senate Wednesday after a sharply partisan debate about whether the initiative could demoralize troops in the field.The Vote Us Out of Iraq measure would be an advisory question on the Feb. 5 presidential primary ballot and ask voters if they support an immediate withdrawal of troops.
It was sent to the Assembly on a 23-11 party-line vote and must win approval from that house and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to get on the ballot.
"Once again, we are a nation at war. And once again, the people want peace," the bill's author, Sen. President Pro Tem Don Perata, D-Oakland, told senators before the vote.
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