Tuesday, May 22, 2007

U.S. Democrats to fund Iraq war with no pullout date

(Reuters) - Senior congressional aides said a $100 billion war funding
bill the U.S. Congress is trying to finish this week will not
contain timetables for withdrawing most of the 147,000 U.S.
troops from Iraq, as anti-war Democrats had hoped.




On May 1, Bush vetoed Congress' first version of this
year's emergency war funds bill because it set an Oct. 1
deadline for starting to pull out soldiers.


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