US House passes politically charged Iraq resolution

WASHINGTON, June 16 (Reuters) In a vote charged with election-year politics, the US House of Representatives today passed a nonbinding resolution that wrapped the Iraq conflict into the war on terrorism and rejected a deadline for US troop withdrawal.

The House approved the resolution that sparked two days of emotional debate as Republicans sought to depict Democrats as weak on terrorism while Democrats decried President George W Bush's policies that they said led to chaos in Iraq and detracted from the fight against al Qaeda.

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