Senate Rejects Cut-and-Run

It wasn't even close:

The Senate rejected a call for the withdrawal of U.S. combat forces from Iraq by year's end on Thursday as Congress erupted in impassioned, election-year debate over a conflict that now has claimed the lives of 2,500 American troops.

The vote was 93-6 to shelve the proposal, which would have allowed "only forces that are critical to completing the mission of standing up Iraqi security forces" to remain in 2007.

And who are the stellar six who voted for defeat: Kerry, Boxer, Kennedy, Feingold, Harkin and Byrd. All Dems, of course.