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Withdraw US forces from Iraq? Cook County votes "Yes"
An overwhelming majority of Cook County voters today voted yes on an advisory referendum asking whether the US should "immediately begin an orderly and rapid withdrawal of all its military personnel from Iraq, beginning with the National Guard and Reserves"
According to the Chicago Sun-Times as of 12:10 AM
11-8-06 [
www.suntimes.com/election_results/cookref.html ]
Yes: 193,062 - 66%
No: 101,207 - 34%
Text of the Cook County Advisory referendum # 3
[
www.voterinfonet.com/sub/candidates_all.asp ]
"Shall the United States Government immediately begin an orderly and rapid withdrawal of all its military personnel from Iraq, beginning with the National Guard and Reserves?"
More info:
Chicagoans Against War and Injustice
[
www.noiraqwar-chicago.org/cawi_001.htm ]