Bush to hold news conference Thursday (open with Kids Health Ins)

[rodeodance]

Source: ap

Bush to hold news conference Thursday

1 hour, 21 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - A week after approving modest troop cuts in Iraq, President Bush prepared to face questions about the war and other issues Thursday.


Bush was to hold a midmorning news conference at the White House, his first since Aug. 9.

While Bush anticipated questions about Iraq, the president planned to open with a statement challenging Democrats on their proposal for a $35 billion increase in a children's health insurance program. Bush has threatened to veto the bill.

The $35 billion increase for the State Children's Health Insurance Program, called SCHIP, would bring total spending to about $60 billion, or twice the level sought by the Bush administration. The president planned to urge lawmakers to send him a simple extension of the program if both sides cannot agree on terms of a new measure.

On Iraq, Bush announced last week he was beginning a series of limited troop withdrawals from the current high level of 168,000. He said 5,700 forces would be home by Christmas and that four brigades — for a total of at least 21,500 troops — would return by July.

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[ShortnFiery]

1. Damn, it's too early to start drinking.

:blush: Here comes the buffoon. :eyes:

[fasttense]

2. F*** A** hole, maybe if we quit wasting billions

paying for an illegal, immoral, and corporate run war, then we would have money to pay for sick American children to see a doctor. He has marbles for brains.

[ladywnch]

3. actually, they're martini olives (for brains)

[polmaven]

4. There may be a couple a little lower than that as well....

Or then again, maybe we are thinking about the same body location.