BBC NEWSA Scottish Socialist Party call to pull all troops out of Iraq by Christmas has been defeated in parliament.
The SSP's Frances Curran urged Scottish politicians to back the party's motion during a debate on Thursday.
She also attacked MSPs for refusing to oppose last year's invasion, which she labelled a 'humanitarian disaster'.
Instead, they passed a Labour motion by 65 votes to 32 supporting those working for peace in Iraq and offering sympathy to those killed while serving there.
During her speech, Ms Curran said: 'Those who supported the war did so on the basis of lies and deceit.
'There are no weapons of mass destruction, there are no links with al Qaeda - at least there wasn't before the invasion.
'Those who supported this war, those who put their hands up in this chamber - you voted to drop bombs on the playgrounds, the schools and the homes of those children.'
She added that coalition troops were not liberators but an occupying army who had broken international law by invading Iraq."
