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Bobblehead · 03-29-2007, 09:40 AM

With a Democrat controlled Congress, there has been talk of passing a Bill to require troop withdrawals, but the Whitehouse has also made it plain that GWB would veto any bill that required that.

So an Iraq war spending bill ($122 Billion - about $20 Billion of which is pork barrel) was just passed - and in it the Senators included a withdrawal deadline. link

If the Bush administration wants the money then GWB cannot veto the bill. (or will he use "signing statements" to make changes on the fly?)

This is interesting, from a 3rd party point of view.

03-29-2007, 09:40 AM	#1
Bobblehead Franchise Player Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: in your blind spot. Exp:	US withdrawal from Iraq? With a Democrat controlled Congress, there has been talk of passing a Bill to require troop withdrawals, but the Whitehouse has also made it plain that GWB would veto any bill that required that. So an Iraq war spending bill ($122 Billion - about $20 Billion of which is pork barrel) was just passed - and in it the Senators included a withdrawal deadline. link If the Bush administration wants the money then GWB cannot veto the bill. (or will he use "signing statements" to make changes on the fly?) This is interesting, from a 3rd party point of view. __________________ "The problem with any ideology is that it gives the answer before you look at the evidence." —Bill Clinton "The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance--it is the illusion of knowledge." —Daniel J. Boorstin, historian, former Librarian of Congress "But the Senator, while insisting he was not intoxicated, could not explain his nudity" —WKRP in Cincinatti