Once a proponent of going to war in Iraq, local Congressman Eliot Engel has done a complete 180 and recently voted to cut off funding for the very same war, now in its fifth year.
Engel joined 147 Democrats and two Republicans in voting down a $162.5 billion war package.
“It is time for the U.S. to pull our troops out of this Iraqi civil war. This war was conceived on misinformation, was poorly planned and has been disastrously executed,” Engel said in a statement.
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