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To: LindyBill who wrote (200734)	3/28/2007 4:44:07 AM
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What can be done here? I'm livid! Reid: Bush 'must accept troops timetable' Mar 28 03:49 AM US/Eastern breitbart.com Congressional Democrats have insisted US President George Bush must accept a withdrawal timetable in exchange for the money needed to fund the war. "We would hope that the president understands how serious we are," said Majority Leader Harry Reid after the Senate voted on Tuesday to uphold a proposal in a war spending Bill calling for the troop withdrawal. Immediately, the White House repeated its threat of a presidential veto in a deepening dispute between Congress and Bush. As the Senate resumes debate on the 122 billion dollars (?111 billion) Bill, Mr Bush is expected to address the legislation in a speech at the National Cattlemen's Beef Association meeting in Washington. Deputy press secretary Dana Perino said Bush would use the speech as an opportunity to address the administration's campaign against terrorism and the need to let the new Iraq security plan get fully under way. "The president will say it is dangerous to our soldiers on the ground to let Washington politics delay this funding," Perino said. But Reid and other Democrats say they will not back down. "Rather than making all the threats that he has, let's work with him and see if he can give us some ideas how we can satisfy the wishes of a majority of the Senate, the majority of the House and move forward," Reid said. The Bill finances operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, but requires Mr Bush to begin bringing home some combat troops right away, with a non-binding goal of ending combat missions as of March 31 2008. The House last week passed a similar Bill by a 218-212 vote. That Bill orders combat troops out by August 31, 2008 - guaranteeing the final spending measure negotiated with the Senate will include some sort of timetable on the war. On Tuesday Senate Republicans tried to strip out the withdrawal language but failed in a 50-48 vote. The vote marked the Senate's most forceful challenge to date of Mr Bush's handling of a war that has claimed the lives of more than 3,200 US troops and tens of thousands of Iraqis. © Copyright Press Association Ltd 2007, All Rights Reserved.

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