White House hangs veto over pullout plan

[babylonsister]

I know - duh.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070308/ap_on_go_co/democrats_iraq;_ylt=AgBlFTUB34cOnxru0ad7B4Os0NUE


White House hangs veto over pullout plan

By DAVID ESPO, AP Special Correspondent 2 hours, 5 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - House Democratic leaders vowed Thursday to pass legislation setting a deadline of Sept. 1, 2008, for the withdrawal of U.S. combat troops from Iraq, a challenge to President Bush's war policy that drew a blunt veto threat in return.

"It would unnecessarily handcuff our generals on the ground, and it's safe to say it's a non-starter for the president," said White House spokesman Dan Bartlett.

Little more than two months after Democrats took control of the House and Senate, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (news, bio, voting record) of California said the bill would set "dates certain for the first time in the Congress for the redeployment of our troops out of Iraq."

Officials said the deadline would be accelerated — possibly to the end of 2007 — if the government of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki failed to meet commitments for taking over security operations, distributing oil revenue and opening his nation's constitution to amendments.

Pelosi said Democrats would add their war-related provisions to the administration's request for nearly $100 billion to pay for the fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The plan is to bring the bill to a vote by the end of the month, making it the first major test of the Democrats' power since they rode a wave of anti-war voter sentiment to midterm election victories last fall.

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[ncteechur]

1. Like they give a shit about the generals on the ground, the soldiers in field

or the ones recouperating in hospital beds at home and abroad.

[papau]

2. What a bluff - without the supplemental the war ends immediately - I don't think Bush will veto n/t

n/t

[rox63]

3. Not really

He'd just steal the money from somewhere else in the budget.

[papau]

5. That is true - Reagan showed there is no impeachment for that type of treason - he

ignored the Boland amendment that stopped all funding of the contra war against central america's nuns, women, children, and liberals.

And the Dem's when they got the Senate back in 86 did nothing.

[emulatorloo]

4. Let him veto it -- The Dems will just come back with another. And nobody is going to be impressed

by Bush BOy.